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Title: System Restore
Post by: MikeDavies on November 02, 2004, 19:31

I am running XP Home SP2.

I have two hard drives, system drive C and a second dive F which I use mainly for video editing.

My problem is that system restore thinks that drive F is the system drive and won't let me turn it off on that drive alone.

Also although system drive C (120GB) and drive F (40GB) have approx 70% free space system restore only maintains one restore point max whereas I seem to remember it used to keep several days worth.

Any suggestions would be welcome

Title: Re:System Restore
Post by: Serenity on November 02, 2004, 21:17

Hi Mike and  :welcome:   Im sure one of our resident "Techies" will be online shortly to help you with your query  :)

Hope you stay around and join in the banter after your problem is solved  :thumb:

Title: Re:System Restore
Post by: Sandra on November 03, 2004, 00:24

Hi Mike, sorry for the delay, I have had ISP connection problems this evening  :(

Has this happened since you upgraded to SP2 ?
Maybe its one of the many glitches that still need to be ironed out with SP2.
If it has I believe that you can uninstall SP2 and use SP1 for a bit until its been resolved.
If it was doing it with SP1 on then I assume that the 40 gig was your boot drive at some point and then you just added the 120 as a new boot drive ?
Maybe if you format the 40 that would remove any of the system files that XP may stil be picking up which are preventing you from disabling system restore on that drive.
If you have already tried formatting it then you may have to set it as a single master and use the drive manufacturers utility to zero fill it, as its only a 40 gig it should take to long to do  :)

Title: Re:System Restore
Post by: Simon on November 03, 2004, 07:58

Quote from: Sandra on November 03, 2004, 00:24

Hi Mike, sorry for the delay, I have had ISP connection problems this evening  :(

Me too.   :(  All OK this morning.   :D

Title: Re:System Restore
Post by: MikeDavies on November 03, 2004, 15:59

Thanks for your inputs, however I have managed to solve the problem.

I turned off system restore on both drives and when I re-instated it, it came up with drive C: as the system drive!

I can now enter several restore points as before.

One of life's little mysterys I guess.

Title: Re:System Restore
Post by: Sandra on November 03, 2004, 16:02

Glad to hear you got it sorted Mike  :)
It was probably just one of those glitches that happen.
Xp is usually quite good at sorting itself out when it reboots so maybe it would have done it eventually without turning it off  :(