System Restore on multiple drives

[Robin]

Why would I need this running on drives other than C: ?
Other drives are data only.

Do I need system restore on them?

 

[Gordon]

Why would I need this running on drives other than C: ?
Other drives are data only.

Do I need system restore on them?

No. System restore does not work on data anyway.

 

[Larry Samuels]

It can sometimes be useful for recovering accidentally deleted files, but I
prefer relying on my own backups.

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[Gordon]

It can sometimes be useful for recovering accidentally deleted files,

But not user-created data files........

 

[Robin]

Ok...I will turn off on all other drives than C: and save space. THX

 

[Ron Martell]

Ok...I will turn off on all other drives than C: and save space. THX

For detailed information about System Restore see MVP Bert Kinney's
System Restore pages: http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

Good luck

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[Bert Kinney]

Hi Robin,

Here are some tips on adjusting disk space usage and keeping System
Restore healthy:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/healthy.html

 

[Robin]

Thx 4 all the help

 

[Stan Brown]

Why would I need this running on drives other than C: ?

No reason I can imagine, unless you've installed Windows on a
different drive. And you told us it's on C.

It's just another silly default.

See here for an excellent presentation on System Restore:
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

 

[Stan Brown]

It can sometimes be useful for recovering accidentally deleted files, but I
prefer relying on my own backups.

It's a good thing you do, because System Restore doesn't restore
"accidentally deleted files" unless they happen to be critical ones
like the Registry -- which would probably prevent you from booting
anyway.

 

[philo]

No reason I can imagine, unless you've installed Windows on a
different drive. And you told us it's on C.

It's just another silly default.

See here for an excellent presentation on System Restore:
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

yep.


Having system restore on drives other than C:
is not necessary...
I've even seen it cause system restore to not even function