System Restore points stored on wrong drive

[Guest]

I've just finished configuring XP and tweaking the registry so user data is
stored in a sensible place (the RAID Data drive, E:, instead of the System
drive, C:, which everyone I know agrees is the most dumb place for Windows to
insist it is stored).

After running Windows Update I have discovered that the many System Restore
points created by all the updates have been saved on the Data drive. This is
very bad, partly because it wastes data space, but mainly because my drive
images of the system and application drives now no longer contain the
associated system restore data for each 'time window' that I make a backup
drive image. This makes drive imaging far less "safe" and useful as a backup
method.

I tried temporarily reverting the registry values I'd changed, to see which
one instructs Windows about the system restore point locations, but these are
still created on the E:drive even when most of my registry changes are undone.

What registry entry tells Windows XP where to create System Restore points?
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[Bert Kinney]

Hi Graham,

Buy default System Restore will create a System Volume Information
folder on every partition it sees. I have never found a way to change
this.

Here is a list of Registry Keys and Values for the System Restore:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=295659&sd=RMVP