RE: Restore points deleted (yet again - sorry)

Hello - Thanks to all who replied to this. It turns out that the problem has
to do with the hibernation file.

I believe the shadow copy system may be getting "confused" by the
hibernation (not booting) of XP in the Acer "instant on" partition though I
am not sure how, so that on every Vista re-boot a changed hiberfil.sys is
detected and the system attempts to shadow it in its entirety. This
effectively overloads the shadowing system leading to the event id 25 (which
is not a symptom of the well-known dual-boot issue).

In any case, turning off hibernation in Vista then back on again allows the
shadow copies to survive re-boot and the system returns to correct operation

Regards - Mike

"MikeAP" wrote:

Hello - All my restore points are getting deleted on every re-boot,
accompanied by volsnap event ID 25 "The shadow copies... were deleted because
the shadow copy storage could not grow in time." I have seen a few mentions
of this problem elsewhere, but no fix. I have tried turning system restore on
and off, with no effect. Restore points are created with no problems, but
invariably deleted at the next boot.

System is a rather odd dual-boot of Vista HP with XP: an Acer Aspire, which
runs XP on a hidden partition exclusively to run Acer's own Arcade media
application in an "instant-on" mode: on exiting this application, XP
hibernates, then resumes when a special hotkey is pressed (as far as I can
see it never reboots XP). But the Vista restore point deletions happen
whether or not XP is actually run. So I can't apply any of the usual fixes.

Can anyone suggest a fix and/or explain why this might, after all, be a
symptom of the dual-boot problem even though XP is not actually running?

Thanks and regards - Mike.
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