Ramdisk and System Restore

[Marc]

My System Restore points have been disappearing and I (now) suspect this
arises when my Ramdisk is accessed. The following error messages are in the
System Event log:
"The System Restore filter encountered the unexpected error '0xC0000010'
while processing the file 'RECYCLED' on the volume 'Ramdisk'. It has stopped
monitoring the volume" (although the file name varies in different error
messages).

System Restore does not show the Ramdisk as a drive and hence I can't 'turn
off' monitoring for the Ramdisk.

Without initiating a "Ramdisk is a good/bad thing" debate, does anyone here
use a Ramdisk and still have their System Restore points available. If so,
were any config changes required.

tia
Marc

 

[R. McCarty]

Yes, but the particular product I use actually defines it as a physical
disk in Device Manager. I also disable System Restore as I have an
alternate method of backup/imaging. What type of RamDisk are you
using & does it appear in the MMC Disk Management snap-in ?
Does it have a drive letter designated ?

 

[Marc]

I use a freeware prog called AR Ramdisk by ARSoft. It shows as a separate
drive letter in Explorer but the Ramdisk drive doesn't appear in Disk
Management, nor does it appear as a physical disk in Device Manager.

What prog do you use?

Marc

 

[Alex Nichol]

My System Restore points have been disappearing and I (now) suspect this
arises when my Ramdisk is accessed. The following error messages are in the
System Event log:
"The System Restore filter encountered the unexpected error '0xC0000010'
while processing the file 'RECYCLED' on the volume 'Ramdisk'. It has stopped
monitoring the volume" (although the file name varies in different error
messages).

System Restore does not show the Ramdisk as a drive and hence I can't 'turn
off' monitoring for the Ramdisk.

RECYCLED is the name of the recycle Bin on a hard disk (FAT 32). There
is not much point in having a Bin on a RAM Disk; I would right click on
the desktop Recycle Bin icon, Properties, select Configure drives
independently, and on the page corresponding to the RAMdisk take 'Do not
move files to the Recycle Bin', When you see other file names it may
well be that it is referring to a file that is thought to be in the Bin
there, but is not

I am puzzled that Restore does not show the Ramdisk but is yet trying to
do things with it. Once it says it has stopped monitoring though you
should be able to set out on a manual creation of a point without it
looking there

 

[Marc]

RECYCLED is the name of the recycle Bin on a hard disk (FAT 32).
There is not much point in having a Bin on a RAM Disk; I would right
click on the desktop Recycle Bin icon, Properties, select Configure
drives independently, and on the page corresponding to the RAMdisk
take 'Do not move files to the Recycle Bin', When you see other file
names it may well be that it is referring to a file that is thought
to be in the Bin there, but is not

I am puzzled that Restore does not show the Ramdisk but is yet trying
to do things with it. Once it says it has stopped monitoring though
you should be able to set out on a manual creation of a point without
it looking there

There isn't a recycle bin on the ramdisk. It appears that any activity on
the Ramdisk causes Restore Points to be deleted. Just now I created a
Restore Point and then unzipped some files to the ramdisk: result = Restore
Point deleted with the error:

"The System Restore filter encountered the unexpected error '0xC0000010'
while processing the file 'Unzdll.dll' on the volume 'Ramdisk'. It has
stopped monitoring the volume."

Although the ramdisk doesn't appear in the System Restore menu of available
disks, it seems System Restore filter tries to deal with it anyway which
causes it to deletes any existing Restore Points!

Looks like I'm stuck with the choice of using either ramdisk or System
Restore but not both

Marc

 

[Guest]

Although RAMDisks are not listed among the managable drives (*) , deleting a file on a existing RAMDisk causes the delete of ALL avaialble restore points. Is there a way to prevent that "System Restore" is influenced by this ? Since the RAMDisk content is full volatile, its content or particular actions on it, should NOT be taken into account by the "Restore Points" managing software.

(*) They are principally no disk class drive. I only know about one sinner that acts like a disk class driver.

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