System Restore Shows Wrong System Drive

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I have XP Home version and have had some unusual issue wth System Restore.
When I bring up utilities for system restore, it shows drive I as the system
drive instead of drive C.

I can sort of understand why this might happen because I installed a new 200
gig drive 5 months ago and made my old C drive I. My system tells me that C
is my boot drive and I am not having any real problems except with restore.
Looks like something is wrong in restor's database.

Can a person make some change somewhere to get restore to recognize C as the
system drive?

 

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Hi,

Disabling, then enabling System Restore should fix it. Reboot in
between.
The only downfall is that all existing restore points will be deleted.
How to Disable and Enable System Restore
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/disablesr.html

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


dweagle wrote:
> I have XP Home version and have had some unusual issue
> wth System Restore. When I bring up utilities for system
> restore, it shows drive I as the system drive instead of
> drive C.
>
> I can sort of understand why this might happen because I
> installed a new 200 gig drive 5 months ago and made my
> old C drive I. My system tells me that C is my boot drive
> and I am not having any real problems except with
> restore. Looks like something is wrong in restor's
> database.
>
> Can a person make some change somewhere to get restore to
> recognize C as the system drive?

 

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Thanks but I must have some other problem also. When I tried what you said, I
received a message that it was unable to turn off System Restore because it
could not disable 1 or more hard drives. I have C,E,F,G,H,I,J. I must have
something corrupted. If I boot from the XP CD and do a reinstall, would I
lose any programs or cause any other problems? Would that fix this issue?

"Bert Kinney" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Disabling, then enabling System Restore should fix it. Reboot in
> between.
> The only downfall is that all existing restore points will be deleted.
> How to Disable and Enable System Restore
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/disablesr.html
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
> http://dts-l.org/
>
>
> dweagle wrote:
> > I have XP Home version and have had some unusual issue
> > wth System Restore. When I bring up utilities for system
> > restore, it shows drive I as the system drive instead of
> > drive C.
> >
> > I can sort of understand why this might happen because I
> > installed a new 200 gig drive 5 months ago and made my
> > old C drive I. My system tells me that C is my boot drive
> > and I am not having any real problems except with
> > restore. Looks like something is wrong in restor's
> > database.
> >
> > Can a person make some change somewhere to get restore to
> > recognize C as the system drive?
>
>
>