Re: restore points on an external portable USB drive

You're welcome.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org


bitsplice wrote:
Thanks Bert,

The only applicable techique in the FAQ was the suggestion to assign a
permenant letter to the harddrive and then shut it off. I already do
that. And as it says in the FAQ, it doesn't necessarily work all the
time. My experiance is that I agree with the FAQ, t doesn't work all
the time.

What I didn't realize is that restore points from different machines
could confuse a particular machine and make the restore points on that
machine useless. So that was a good pointer and I thank you for it.

bitsplice


On Nov 14, 12:32 pm, Bert Kinney <b...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

See if these suggestions help.

Tips Fixes & FAQshttp://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html#11

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/Userhttp://bertk.mvps.org
Member:http://dts-l.org



bitspl...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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.
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