If I have a 1 TB drive, and partition it so that my C: partition is
only 10GB or so for easy backup, then by default Windows XP will
reserve about 120GB on my non-system partitions for system restore
points in the System Volume Information folders, which as far as I
have read are never used for anything. That's a lot of space. Is
there any reason to leave System Restore turned on for non-boot
partitions? Thank you.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:3f471541-db09-4877-aa04-(E-Mail Removed)...
> If I have a 1 TB drive, and partition it so that my C: partition is
> only 10GB or so for easy backup, then by default Windows XP will
> reserve about 120GB on my non-system partitions for system restore
> points in the System Volume Information folders, which as far as I
> have read are never used for anything. That's a lot of space. Is
> there any reason to leave System Restore turned on for non-boot
> partitions? Thank you.

If your system files / program files are all on the system
partition then you don't need System Restore for the
other partitions.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> If I have a 1 TB drive, and partition it so that my C: partition is
> only 10GB or so for easy backup, then by default Windows XP will
> reserve about 120GB on my non-system partitions for system restore
> points in the System Volume Information folders, which as far as I
> have read are never used for anything. That's a lot of space. Is
> there any reason to leave System Restore turned on for non-boot
> partitions? Thank you.

Only if you have SYSTEM files on that drive....System Restore only monitors
SYSTEM files...

On Dec 30, 10:33 am, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com.oz> wrote:
> If your system files / program files are all on the system
> partition then you don't need System Restore for the
> other partitions.

Program files? What program files? Are you saying that if I install
Paintshop Pro on my G: drive that System Restore will back it up?
Thank you.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Dec 30, 10:33 am, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com.oz> wrote:
>> If your system files / program files are all on the system
>> partition then you don't need System Restore for the
>> other partitions.
>
> Program files? What program files? Are you saying that if I install
> Paintshop Pro on my G: drive that System Restore will back it up?
> Thank you.

I suspect it will but I'm not sure. Give it a try:
1. Install some program on drive G:.
2. Create a Restore Point.
3. Uninstall the program.
4. Use System Restore.
Is the program back again?

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:28:27 -0800 (PST), (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> If I have a 1 TB drive, and partition it so that my C: partition is
> only 10GB or so for easy backup, then by default Windows XP will
> reserve about 120GB on my non-system partitions for system restore
> points in the System Volume Information folders, which as far as I
> have read are never used for anything. That's a lot of space. Is
> there any reason to leave System Restore turned on for non-boot
> partitions?



No. You *should* turn it off on all non-system partitions.


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On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:19:33 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:28:27 -0800 (PST), (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> > If I have a 1 TB drive, and partition it so that my C: partition is
> > only 10GB or so for easy backup, then by default Windows XP will
> > reserve about 120GB on my non-system partitions for system restore
> > points in the System Volume Information folders, which as far as I
> > have read are never used for anything. That's a lot of space. Is
> > there any reason to leave System Restore turned on for non-boot
> > partitions?
>
>
>
> No. You *should* turn it off on all non-system partitions.


By the way, one more point. 10GB is very small for the C: partition.
Especially with such a large drive, I would make it substantially
bigger--50GB or even more.

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"Ken Blake, MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:19:33 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:28:27 -0800 (PST), (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>>
>> > If I have a 1 TB drive, and partition it so that my C: partition is
>> > only 10GB or so for easy backup, then by default Windows XP will
>> > reserve about 120GB on my non-system partitions for system restore
>> > points in the System Volume Information folders, which as far as I
>> > have read are never used for anything. That's a lot of space. Is
>> > there any reason to leave System Restore turned on for non-boot
>> > partitions?
>>
>>
>>
>> No. You *should* turn it off on all non-system partitions.
>
>
> By the way, one more point. 10GB is very small for the C: partition.
> Especially with such a large drive, I would make it substantially
> bigger--50GB or even more.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

In my experience 20 GBytes is generous for a system partition,
even for a server, as long all user data is kept on a separate
partition. My current system partition for WinXP Professional
requires just 8 GBytes. It is fully loaded with the usual apps
including various sound and picture processing programs and
lots of diagnostic stuff (e.g. the TRK), plus the paging file.

On Dec 30, 1:46 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com.oz> wrote:
> In my experience 20 GBytes is generous for a system partition,
> even for a server, as long all user data is kept on a separate
> partition. My current system partition for WinXP Professional
> requires just 8 GBytes. It is fully loaded with the usual apps
> including various sound and picture processing programs and
> lots of diagnostic stuff (e.g. the TRK), plus the paging file.


I keep My Documents and the paging file on separate partitions, and
like you, I've never needed more than 10GB.

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:46:08 +0100, "Pegasus \(MVP\)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:19:33 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
> > <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:28:27 -0800 (PST), (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> >>
> >> > If I have a 1 TB drive, and partition it so that my C: partition is
> >> > only 10GB or so for easy backup, then by default Windows XP will
> >> > reserve about 120GB on my non-system partitions for system restore
> >> > points in the System Volume Information folders, which as far as I
> >> > have read are never used for anything. That's a lot of space. Is
> >> > there any reason to leave System Restore turned on for non-boot
> >> > partitions?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> No. You *should* turn it off on all non-system partitions.
> >
> >
> > By the way, one more point. 10GB is very small for the C: partition.
> > Especially with such a large drive, I would make it substantially
> > bigger--50GB or even more.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>
> In my experience 20 GBytes is generous for a system partition,
> even for a server, as long all user data is kept on a separate
> partition. My current system partition for WinXP Professional
> requires just 8 GBytes. It is fully loaded with the usual apps
> including various sound and picture processing programs and
> lots of diagnostic stuff (e.g. the TRK), plus the paging file.
>

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