Re: System Restore causes loss of data files.



"johan" wrote

Hi to aka Jerry, Detlev Dreyer and Gordon,

The D partition in my case is some sort of backup partition already of
several GByte. So backing up again that D partiction is a bit too much. The
D partition has all user date and backups, installers from CD. The C
partition only has WinXP system and applications.

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Backing up to a partition on an internal drive has little value, unless there is redundancy in the backups to external media. All data should be backed up to external media such as an external drive, a networked, drive, or CD/DVD.

It is commonly recommended to turn off system restore on non system drives.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

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