I use a portable USB drive that gets hooked up to various machines. I
have turned off system restore on the drive, but if I forget to shut
off the drive or disconeect it before I do a power cycle, when the
computer (running XP or W2K) reboots, it will set a restore point on
the portable USB external hard drive.
Is there a way I can tell XP to shut off this behaviour once and for
all so that it will not use the portable harddrive to save restore
point information?
Note: I do not see this behaviour with USB flash drives.
Re: Computer problem, need help ... Having a backup is often the only solution. ...system restore for software failures ... creating a large number of system restore files, but just your luck, ... has problems with SATA drives and perhaps problems with partitioned ... (soc.retirement)
Re: Windows xp system restore function ... On disabling SR on drive D: and rebooting, ... on ALL drives and could not be re-enabled whatever I did (which was to check ...Deleting Restore Points at random intervals. ... Many problems with System Restore are caused by anti-virus software, ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: HP "D" Drive content ... The used space is 10 times more on your C partition than your D partition. ... This makes sense given that your D partition contains a restore copy of your Windows XP operating system compared to the operating system, programmes and data on your C partition. ... You should not have System Restore monitoring an external drive and there is no point it monitoring the D partition. ... Turn it off on these drives.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
Re: Computer problem, need help ... Having a backup is often the only solution. ...system restore for software failures ... creating a large number of system restore files, but just your luck, ... has problems with SATA drives and perhaps problems with partitioned ... (soc.retirement)
Re: How to increase hard drive space. ... recent restore points. ... > You should periodically defragment your hard drives as well as check them ... You should at least turn on the built in firewall.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
