System Restore Question

[Johnny_1]

Good Day,
Is there any reason, other than dual boot, for having
system restore monitor all/any partitions other than the
OS partition?

Re:System Restore can be turned on or off for all
partitions (unless primary partition is turned off).

My setup:
HD Master: 80 Gb, C:\ (NTFS) contains OS, OfficeXP,
documents (15 Gb), D:\ (NTFS) contains program files
HD Slave: old 20 Gb, E:\ (Fat32) contains backups,
pagefile, and any programs that may need Fat.

I could not find any info on this other than how to turn
on/off.

Appreciate any replies,
John

 

[Tricia]

Good Day,
Is there any reason, other than dual boot, for having
system restore monitor all/any partitions other than the
OS partition?

Re:System Restore can be turned on or off for all
partitions (unless primary partition is turned off).

My setup:
HD Master: 80 Gb, C:\ (NTFS) contains OS, OfficeXP,
documents (15 Gb), D:\ (NTFS) contains program files
HD Slave: old 20 Gb, E:\ (Fat32) contains backups,
pagefile, and any programs that may need Fat.

I could not find any info on this other than how to turn
on/off.

Appreciate any replies,
John

It is a purely personal setting. Therefore it is up to you.

 

[Johnny_1]

-----Original Message-----



It is a purely personal setting. Therefore it is up to you.


.

Thanks for the quick reply. However, let me reword my
question, since the definition for system restore is:

System Restore takes a "snapshot" of critical system files
and some program files and stores this information as
restore points. You can use these restore points to return
Windows XP to a previous state.

If I have no critical system files on d:\ or e:\ why even
have system restore enabled for those drives? Would it
even back up anything?

 

[Alex Nichol]

Is there any reason, other than dual boot, for having
system restore monitor all/any partitions other than the
OS partition?

My setup:
HD Master: 80 Gb, C:\ (NTFS) contains OS, OfficeXP,
documents (15 Gb), D:\ (NTFS) contains program files
HD Slave: old 20 Gb, E:\ (Fat32) contains backups,
pagefile, and any programs that may need Fat.

Normally no: SR deliberately excludes data. You could monitor your D
partition against damage to individual program files, but these don't
often get into trouble, and when they do it is easy enough to reinstall
the program on top of the old one - then maybe use SR to restore the
registry settings. So I only bother with SR on C: - where it is
valuable

 

[Johnny_1]

-----Original Message-----



Normally no: SR deliberately excludes data. You could monitor your D
partition against damage to individual program files, but these don't
often get into trouble, and when they do it is easy enough to reinstall
the program on top of the old one - then maybe use SR to restore the
registry settings. So I only bother with SR on C: - where it is
valuable

Thanks for the input Alex