Restore Assigning System Drive Incorrectly

[Guest]

This started with my having 2 80gig drives in my computer. The C: drive
starting giving me problems and I was running Chkdsk almost every week. So I
decided to swap C: & D:, which was largely a data drive. Using Western
Digital's copy disk function, I copied C: to D: along with the partition. I
then physically swapped the two drives. Thus the old C: was now D: by
position, cable, and jumper placement and the old D: was now C: also by cable
and jumpter placement. I also formated the old C:. Everything seemed to
work fine. Every where in the computer (that I could think of looking),
everything looks good. Except "Restore" where D: is listed on top of the
list in the System Properties Restore tab. It also says D: is the system
drive and there is no switch to turn off restore. C: is on the bottom of the
list and has the switch. I would appreciate some assistance since I have
this nasty feeling something is wrong.
Thanks. TL

 

[peter]

If you open restore by right clicking the MyComputer Icon/properties/system
restore..you should see a check box at the top left that says.........turn
off system restore.This turns off restore on all drives.after you have
turned off restore reboot and all restore points will be gone.The go back
and turn Restore back on....this should correct the drive problem.
peter

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

Tips Fixes & FAQs - There’s a drive letter missing from the System
Properties - Restore Tab, what should I do?
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html#DriveLetterMissing

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

 

[Guest]

Peter,
When I tried your suggestion, I got the following message "System Restore
encountered an error trying to enable/disable one or more drives. Please
restart your machine and try again." When I restarted, I got the same
message. This is after I checked the "Turn off System Restore....." box.
TL

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bert,
Even though the title of ".... drive missing from the System ..." didn't
exactly describe the issue, the "Quickly reset all Restore Points" seemed to
do the trick." I used the following:

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/resetsr.htm

Thanks,
TL

 

[Bert Kinney]

You're welcome and thanks for the feed back. I knew it would work.

I have changed the title of the fix to address mismatched drive letters.

Tips Fixes & FAQs - A drive letter(s) are missing or mismatched on the
System Properties - Restore Tab, what should I do?
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html#DriveLetterMissing

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org