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Stop sys restore pts from being deleted in Win 7 when dual booting
Hi,
I applied the manual fix for KB926185 described in the tutorial provided (very well-written) under the Vista discussion. However, I found that every time I rebooted, the deleted \DosDevices\K: key kept on reappearing after each deletion even though it was listed under Offline subkey.
I have Win 7 Home Prem 64 on one hard drive and Win XP Pro 32 bit on a second hard drive. There are a number of partitions on the Win XP drive so that is why Win 7 showed up on K:
Anyway, I tried the deletion a number of times, but the K: drive would reappear and I could access the contents, it was not just showing up and appearing blank as some postings to the tutorial indicated might happen.
One other bit of information is that besides the MountedDevices Key in the registry, there is also a MountedDevice1 Key. There was a reference to K: there also. I did not do anything to the subkey for K: under MountedDevice1. It had a different value there than it did under MountedDevices. Other postings to the KB926185 tutorial also mentioned MountedDevice1 but it was unclear whether something needed to be done to it or whether deleting the subkey would cause additional problems.
Finally, the only way to make the drive "go away" was to disable it through the device manager under XP.
Does anyone have an idea why the drive would keep reappearing? Thanks.