I always turn-off System Restore (in Windows XP) for partitions or drives not running
Windows XP. I would suggest the same prior to installing Windows Vista.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
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"John C. Iliff" wrote:

| C. all of the above...
|
| I, too, have been following the discussions, and dual boot XP/Vista. I have
| them on separate HDD's, and installed Vista from within XP, so that C: is
| ONLY XP, and Vista stays on F: (in my case). Yesterday, I did some extensive
| (?) testing...creating restore points in Vista, then rebooting and creating
| points in XP, then rebooting, etc. I found the restore points in XP remained
| unchanged (as advertised in the posts), and the restore points missing in
| Vista (as advertised). The process was repeated more than once, and
| everytime the restore points were missing from Vista. Soooo....I'll fall
| back to my BootItNG, and hide Vista from XP. No need to hide XP from Vista.
|
| John
|
| "BChat" <not@available.com> wrote in message
| news:OZPxu2EMHHA.320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
| > When dual booting XP/Vista does XP wipe out the Vista restore points:
| > A. if they are on separate HDs
| > B. if they are on the same HD, different partitions
| > C. all of the above
| >
| > Thanks
| > BChat
|
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