I have read online several "fixes" for this extremely annoying issue but
none have worked. Any ideas how to stop this from happening?

Hi Steve,

There are only two real solutions:

1) Use a third party boot manager like BootIT NG that can hide each OS's
installation volume from the other when booted.

2) Run Vista Ultimate and install and use Bitlocker.

If XP can access the Vista volume in any way, it will destroy the restore
points regardless of whether or not System Restore is running.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have read online several "fixes" for this extremely annoying issue but
>none have worked. Any ideas how to stop this from happening?

I second Rick's post. Lots of posts claiming another solution, but there
are only the two ways to be sure. The others are doubtful at best.

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have read online several "fixes" for this extremely annoying issue but
>none have worked. Any ideas how to stop this from happening?

that unfortunately is not optimal for me right now as I only have those
drives and I dual boot for functionality that I lost in Vista. Some of my
programs still do not have Vista versions. If XP can't see Vistas drive it
defeats my purpose. I do plan on wiping the XP system and reinstalling
Vista clean when I am satisfied with it (probably after SP1 comes out for
Vista and SP3 for XP (so I can install it and ghost the drive for future
use)) so for now I guess I SOL. Thanks for the info. it is appreciated.


"John Barnes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I second Rick's post. Lots of posts claiming another solution, but there
>are only the two ways to be sure. The others are doubtful at best.
>
> "Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I have read online several "fixes" for this extremely annoying issue but
>>none have worked. Any ideas how to stop this from happening?
>

> If XP can't see Vistas drive it defeats my purpose.

Why is that?

Steve

BootIt NG is not that expensive and a good investment.

Using BootIt NG you can have data partitions seen by both operating
systems. You just prevent the operating systems from seeing the
others partition.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/examples.html


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> that unfortunately is not optimal for me right now as I only have
> those drives and I dual boot for functionality that I lost in
> Vista. Some of my programs still do not have Vista versions. If XP
> can't see Vistas drive it defeats my purpose. I do plan on wiping
> the XP system and reinstalling Vista clean when I am satisfied
> with it (probably after SP1 comes out for Vista and SP3 for XP (so
> I can install it and ghost the drive for future use)) so for now I
> guess I SOL. Thanks for the info. it is appreciated.
>
>
>

/Steve/ said:
>
> "John Barnes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:uLm%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> "Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have read online several "fixes" for this extremely annoying
>>> issue
but
>>> none have worked. Any ideas how to stop this from happening?
>>
>> I second Rick's post. Lots of posts claiming another solution, but
>>
there
>> are only the two ways to be sure. The others are doubtful at best.
>>
>
> That unfortunately is not optimal for me right now as I only have
> those drives and I dual boot for functionality that I lost in Vista.
> Some of my programs still do not have Vista versions. If XP can't see
> Vistas drive it defeats my purpose. I do plan on wiping the XP
> system and reinstalling Vista clean when I am satisfied with it
> (probably after SP1 comes out for Vista and SP3 for XP (so I can
> install it and ghost the drive for future use)) so for now I guess I
> SOL. Thanks for the info. it is appreciated.

One approach is the use of an imaging utility, so you can be little
concerned with the loss of Vista's own shadow copies/back up.

Here, XP and Vista are are each on their own partitioned drives, and
each sees the other's drive. Image back ups are made to the second
partition on the XP drive, the drive on which the back up utility is
installed.

Because I do not what to have duplicate files for both Vista and XP. There
are things I do on XP that I cant do on Vista such as our digital pictures.
We use Vueprint 8.0 on XP to view our pictures. I have tried the Vista
utility and found it lacking. Other things are stiching my cameras video
files together. I use a program in XP that does not work in Vista. Another
thing was Nero did not work in Vista right away so I had to boot back to XP
to burn my disc's. Don't get me started about Vista's lame attempt at CD
burning.

So, in short, there are things that I need to do that can only work in XP
and the files might be in the Vista drive. If XP cant see the Vista drive,
then how do I access the files.
"DanR" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> If XP can't see Vistas drive it defeats my purpose.
>
> Why is that?
>
>

With Bit Locker your pc needs to be TPM compatible, if not a recommended
group policy change and use of a usb thumb drive is required to store the
encryption key. You can read more about it here:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...bf2201033.mspx

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> that unfortunately is not optimal for me right now as I only have those
> drives and I dual boot for functionality that I lost in Vista. Some of my
> programs still do not have Vista versions. If XP can't see Vistas drive it
> defeats my purpose. I do plan on wiping the XP system and reinstalling
> Vista clean when I am satisfied with it (probably after SP1 comes out for
> Vista and SP3 for XP (so I can install it and ghost the drive for future
> use)) so for now I guess I SOL. Thanks for the info. it is appreciated.
>
>
> "John Barnes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:uLm%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I second Rick's post. Lots of posts claiming another solution, but there
>>are only the two ways to be sure. The others are doubtful at best.
>>
>> "Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>I have read online several "fixes" for this extremely annoying issue but
>>>none have worked. Any ideas how to stop this from happening?
>>
>

Put the data files in a third partition.

Gary VanderMolen

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Because I do not what to have duplicate files for both Vista and XP. There are things I do on XP that I cant do on Vista such as
> our digital pictures. We use Vueprint 8.0 on XP to view our pictures. I have tried the Vista utility and found it lacking. Other
> things are stiching my cameras video files together. I use a program in XP that does not work in Vista. Another thing was Nero
> did not work in Vista right away so I had to boot back to XP to burn my disc's. Don't get me started about Vista's lame attempt
> at CD burning.
>
> So, in short, there are things that I need to do that can only work in XP and the files might be in the Vista drive. If XP cant
> see the Vista drive, then how do I access the files.
> "DanR" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> If XP can't see Vistas drive it defeats my purpose.
>>
>> Why is that?