Restricting drives for System Restore

[Patok]

For some reason, System Restore includes other drives than the system
boot drive in its "monitoring" status, even though I turn them off. They
stay turned off for awhile, but then, for unknown reasons, start being
monitored again. This is especially annoying, because I have to keep
watch for it, as if I have nothing better to do.
Is there anything I can do to make it monitor just one drive, and
never ever look at the others?
(Normally I wouldn't bother, but in this case all the other drives
are external USB drives, that may be here, or may not be, and there's no
system files on them, just data, that's backed up anyway.)

 

[Billns]

For some reason, System Restore includes other drives than the system
boot drive in its "monitoring" status, even though I turn them off. They
stay turned off for awhile, but then, for unknown reasons, start being
monitored again. This is especially annoying, because I have to keep
watch for it, as if I have nothing better to do.
Is there anything I can do to make it monitor just one drive, and never
ever look at the others?
(Normally I wouldn't bother, but in this case all the other drives are
external USB drives, that may be here, or may not be, and there's no
system files on them, just data, that's backed up anyway.)

Try this:
Turn system restore off on all drives. You'll lose all your restore points.
Restart computer.
Turn system restore back on but only for your C: drive (or wherever you
have Windows installed).
Make a new system restore point.

Bill

 

[Patok]

Try this:
Turn system restore off on all drives. You'll lose all your restore points.
Restart computer.
Turn system restore back on but only for your C: drive (or wherever you
have Windows installed).
Make a new system restore point.

Thanks. I did it, we'll see how it works out. I /think/ I have done
it before, but I'm not sure - after all, I wasn't expecting stuff like
that. Now, after doing it explicitly and purposely, I'm curious if it
will make any difference.

 

[Patok]

Thanks. I did it, we'll see how it works out. I /think/ I have done it
before, but I'm not sure - after all, I wasn't expecting stuff like
that. Now, after doing it explicitly and purposely, I'm curious if it
will make any difference.

The recent System Restore questions reminded me that I did not share
the outcome of above. And the outcome is - it works. So far (more than a
month since), System restore is monitoring just the system drive, and no
unwanted monitoring of other drives has happened.