Stopping System Restore on removable drive

[Visum (M Byrnes)]

Windows XP sp2 all updates...

External Hard drive via USB... system restore consistently wants to
monitor this drive, although I continually turn monitoring off on this
drive (via My Computer / Properties)... is there another method to
permanently turn off system restore to this drive? I still monitor
Drive C, the main system volume...

Thanks

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

System Restore in Windows XP was designed to monitor any partition it sees,
including external drives. A *possible* work around is to assign a permanent
drive letter (the higher in the alphabet the better) to the external drive
via Disk Management. To access Disk Management, go to Start - Run and type
diskmgmt.msc then press enter.

Right-click a partition, logical drive, or volume, and then click Change
Drive Letter and Paths.

Do one of the following:

1. To assign a drive letter, click Add, click the drive letter you want to
use, and then click OK.

2. To modify a drive letter, click it, click Change, click the drive letter
you want to use, and then click OK.

Reboot the system. Open System Restore and stop monitoring that drive. This
should keep System Restore from monitoring that drive, but not always.

System Restore and external drives:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html#ExternalDrive

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