Yes, I know
The Vista restore points AND the Vista update lists are for sure gone
each time I boot XP.
DCR
| But your Vista restore points are the ones at risk. Booting into XP wipes
| the VISTA restore points.
|
| | > My XP restore points are all fine
| > Both Vista x86 and x64 are installed and booted at least once a day.
| >
| >
| > DCR
| >
| >
| > | > | Hello thank you for your reply... but let me tell you why I posted this
| > | question and maybe you can explain it ....
| > |
| > | I had XP on my pc on the first partition of the first drive, and
| > installed
| > | vista RC2 on the second partition of the first drive.
| > | I was using both OS from time to time..
| > | at one point something (not related to any of this) happened and I had
| > to do
| > | a system restore on XP or else I would have a big problem. To my
| > | astonishment.. I saw
| > | that all the restore points on XP were missing!!!
| > | And then I remembered that I read in this newsgroup that vista can
| > delete
| > | your restore points on XP. Because XP was messed up so much and I had no
| > | restore points I ended
| > | up formatting XP and because vista was the cause out of my disgust I
| > | formatted that too! lol
| > |
| > | After some time I thought I would give it a second try.. now I have XP
| > on
| > | the first partition and vista RC2 on the second....but I don't want the
| > | restore points to vanish,
| > | in case I need them!
| > |
| > | can you make any sense of this? Someone said vista knows XP, but if that
| > is
| > | the case
| > | why did it delete the restore points on there?
| > |
| > |
| > | Thanks in advance
| > |
| > |
| > | | > | > Michail:
| > | > If you installed Xp then Vista your boot files should be on
| > your XP
| > | > partition. Hiding the Vista partition from XP is the goal so that when
| > XP
| > | > boots it doesn't delete the Vista volsnap.sys files. I'm using
| > BitLocker
| > | > in Vista to accomplish the same goal, but it's only available with
| > | > Business, Enterprise and Ultimate. When booted into Vista Enterprise
| > x64,
| > | > I can see the XP, XPx64 and data partitions and access all partitions
| > | > normally. When booted into XP or XPx64, I can see the XP, XPx64 and
| > data
| > | > partitions but only see a drive letter for the Vista partition with no
| > | > access to any of the data on the Vista partition.
| > | > --
| > | > Dennis Pack
| > | > Vista x64 Enterprise
| > | > Office 2007
| > | > | > | >>> You need to hide the Vista partition from the XP partition.
| > | >>
| > | >> Only that? are you sure ?
| > | >>
| > | >> Please confirm this so I wont do a mistake...
| > | >>
| > | >> thanks
| > | >>
| > | >>
| > | >> | > | >>> Michail:
| > | >>> You need to hide the Vista partition from the XP partition.
| > | >>>
| > | >>> --
| > | >>> Dennis Pack
| > | >>> Vista x64 Enterprise
| > | >>> Office 2007
| > | >>> | > | >>>> It is a known fact that if you have a dual boot XP and Vista system
| > | >>>> then the restore points on each installation get purged.
| > | >>>> Someone said that you have to hide the partitions from each
| > installtion
| > | >>>> so this
| > | >>>> would not happened. So I installed acronis disk director, and tried
| > to
| > | >>>> hide the XP partition that was on the first partition of my first
| > disk
| > | >>>> (vista is on the
| > | >>>> second partition of the first disk). However acronis gave me an
| > error
| > | >>>> that it could
| > | >>>> not hide the first partition of the first disk.
| > | >>>>
| > | >>>> Can anyone please explain what I have to do so that the restore
| > points
| > | >>>> of both XP and Vista will not be deleted?
| > | >>>>
| > | >>>> thanks
| > | >>>
| > | >>
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