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"Mikhail Zhilin" <mwz@x.REMOVEx.aha.ru> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 17:17:10 +0200, "Alias"
> <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote:
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>>"Mikhail Zhilin [MS MVP]" <mwz@x.REMOVEx.aha.ru> wrote in message
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>>> See:
>>>
>>> 'System Restore "restore points" are missing or deleted'
>>>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301224
>>>
>>> And -- don't you use any USB drives by chance (like Flash Drive, or
>>> external USB HDD)?
>>
>>Will an external USB HDD eliminate restore points?
>>
>>Alias
> <.....>
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> If the external drive is not excluded from System Restore (Control Panel
> -- System -- System Restore tab -- select the drive -- Settings button
> -- Turn off System Restore on this drive), and there is less than
> (approx) 10% of the free space on the drive -- System Restore turns to
> Suspend state, deleting all restore points.
It's an 80 gig drive with two partitions, one is 15 GB with nothing in it.
The other is 65GB with less than 5GB being used. Do I have anything to worry
about?
Thanks,
Alias
>
> But moreover: if the external USB drive is attached to the 'hot' system,
> then System Restore watches it even in case it had been excluded from
> System Restore before the last boot. But no problem if the USB drive,
> that was excluded from System Restore, is attached before booting.
>
> --
> Mikhail Zhilin
> MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
>
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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