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Thanks for the feedback, Ralph. I am glad it worked out.
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Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://dts-l.org/
ralph wrote:
> Bert:
> Worked perfectly!!! Things are now back to normal on both
> partitions. Many thanks.
> As a follow-up:
> In this system, the OS on Partition 1 is the "working"
> system. The OS on Partition 2 has two purposes: (1) Acts
> as a back-up system. (2) Occasionally is used to test out
> on new program. There is never a reason to access
> Partition 2 (drive d) when running the OS on Partition 1. My
> question is: Is there any way to "hide" or "disable"
> partition 2 during normal use?
> thanks again....ralph
>
>
> "Bert Kinney" <bert@NSmvps.org> wrote in message
> news:OTiS4kkaFHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>
>>
>> ralph wrote:
>>> Thanks for your reply. Just to make sure that I fully
>>> understand your suggestions:
>>> At this point I should:
>>> 1: Under each operating system I should discontinue
>>> monitoring all partitions except the one the operating
>>> system is on.
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>>> For example, after booting up the OS on the
>>> C drive I will discontinue monitoring the D drive that
>>> has the second compy of Win XP and also all partitions
>>> used for data.
>>
>> That is correct.
>>
>>> Likewise, after bootong up the copy of Win
>>> XP in the D drive, I should disable monitoring on all
>>> other drives.
>>
>> Correct again.
>>
>>> 2: Create a fresh restore point under both operating
>>> systems.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> (I thought this happened automatically when doing a
>>> restore)
>>
>> Restoring a system does not create a restore point.
>> Description of System Restore:
>>
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html
>>
>>> 3: Run SR on each operating system Fortunately, I am
>>> reasonable certain that I have not
>>> altered any files on one OS from the other OS.
>>
>> You very well may not have, however running SR would
>> have, with your current setup.
>>
>>> Please let me know if this is correct.
>>> thanks...ralph
>>>
>>>
>>> "Bert Kinney" wrote
>>>> In a dual boot scenario you do not want to let one OS
>>>> monitor another OS which has WinXP installed and System
>>>> Restore enabled. And you do not want to make changes to
>>>> any files, particularly monitored file, on a partition
>>>> that contains WinXP. What happens is when changes are
>>>> made to a WinXP partition while System Restore is not
>>>> running, an inconsistency occurs between the SR log
>>>> and the file monitored. In turn this causes restore point
>>>> corruption, and all restore points will need to be
>>>> purged on the partition where the corruption occurred.
>>>> So the first thing you need to do is stop each OS from
>>>> monitoring any other partition.
>>>> How to disable a monitored drive:
>>>>
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/drivedisable.html
>>>>
>>>> I am not 100% sure what will happen when SR is run
>>>> after the disabling of the monitored partitions, in this
>>>> case. So I would suggest creating a new restore point on each
>>>> OS to fall back on. Then try restoring each OS. Please
>>>> let me know of the results.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ralph wrote:
>>>>> I Have a dual boot Win XP Pro system (SR-2) with Win
>>>>> XP installed on both the the C and D drives (other
>>>>> drives are used for data). I need to use system
>>>>> restore to restore both systems to a recent
>>>>> restorepoint. If I run system restore from one
>>>>> operating system, will it restore both operating systems or do I
>>>>> need to run
>>>>> system restore from both partitions?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
>> http://dts-l.org/
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