Defrag removes restore points

[Steven Hill]

Hi,

I have just had to reformat and re-install Vista Home Premium defragmenting
the drive removes all restore points anyone know how to fix this. I also
tried Diskeeper same result.

Thanks

Steve

 

[Paul Montgomery]

I have just had to reformat and re-install Vista Home Premium defragmenting
the drive removes all restore points anyone know how to fix this. I also
tried Diskeeper same result.

Don't perform the boot defrag (the one that runs before Windows
loads). I ran that either with Diskeeper or another program once and
lost all my restore points.

 

[Steven Hill]

Thanks for the response Paul,
I ran defrag from within Vista this has me puzzled. I have googled and for
the most part this happens with duel boot or as you say through boot defrag
neither of which applies :-(

 

[Paul Montgomery]

Thanks for the response Paul,
I ran defrag from within Vista this has me puzzled. I have googled and for
the most part this happens with duel boot or as you say through boot defrag
neither of which applies :-(

Do you have it set to use "VSS defragmentation method"? It should be
set to do that.

 

[Steven Hill]

Thanks again I uninstalled Diskeeper I'll put it back on and check in the
morning

 

[Paul Montgomery]

2 good free defraggers are Auslogics and jkDefrag.

Agreed, but of the two, I liked Auslogics better. In fact, that's
what I use on my notebook which doesn't get nearly as much use as this
machine does.

On this machine I have 4 internal drives and 2 external... jkDefrag
wanted to do them all unless I used the command line options. Too
much trouble.

I tried the trial version of Diskeeper for the full trial period, and
got sucked in by the experience so I bought it ;-)

 

[Steven Hill]

Hi, Thanks for the reply I am running Diskeeper 2007 Home edition I am
reluctant to button the 2008 version on the off chance that it might not
delete the restore points. I didn't notice this happening before I did a
fresh install of Vista Home though I might just have missed it.