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System Restore all off, still creating restore points on 2nd parti
Although we have System Restore turned off on all drives, restore points are
still being created on the secondary partitions. The OS partiton is drive C, NTFS. The secondary partition is drive D, FAT32. The restore points are being created when applications (i.e. DirectX, WinDVD, etc.) are installed from the second partition (drive D). We must install these from a secondary partition. What are we missing? These restore points are filling up our drives. Also, I thought System Restore wouldn't work on FAT32 drives? Thanks, -- Bill Baker |
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System Restore all off, still creating restore points on 2nd parti
Bill, I use two drives both formatted FAT32 and when I turn off System
Restore on all Drives, it's turned off. With NTFS you might have a issue with permissions on the other drives But, just guessing. "WB" wrote in message ... Although we have System Restore turned off on all drives, restore points are still being created on the secondary partitions. The OS partiton is drive C, NTFS. The secondary partition is drive D, FAT32. The restore points are being created when applications (i.e. DirectX, WinDVD, etc.) are installed from the second partition (drive D). We must install these from a secondary partition. What are we missing? These restore points are filling up our drives. Also, I thought System Restore wouldn't work on FAT32 drives? Thanks, -- Bill Baker |
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System Restore all off, still creating restore points on 2nd p
Thanks for the reply Rich. Not sure what permissions I should set or unset.
BTW: The System Restore Service is stopped, but restore points are still being created. This makes no sense, unless it's an undocumented bug. -- Bill Baker "Rich Barry" wrote: Bill, I use two drives both formatted FAT32 and when I turn off System Restore on all Drives, it's turned off. With NTFS you might have a issue with permissions on the other drives But, just guessing. "WB" wrote in message ... Although we have System Restore turned off on all drives, restore points are still being created on the secondary partitions. The OS partiton is drive C, NTFS. The secondary partition is drive D, FAT32. The restore points are being created when applications (i.e. DirectX, WinDVD, etc.) are installed from the second partition (drive D). We must install these from a secondary partition. What are we missing? These restore points are filling up our drives. Also, I thought System Restore wouldn't work on FAT32 drives? Thanks, -- Bill Baker . |
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System Restore all off, still creating restore points on 2ndparti
WB wrote:
Although we have System Restore turned off on all drives, restore points are still being created on the secondary partitions. The OS partiton is drive C, NTFS. The secondary partition is drive D, FAT32. The restore points are being created when applications (i.e. DirectX, WinDVD, etc.) are installed from the second partition (drive D). We must install these from a secondary partition. What are we missing? These restore points are filling up our drives. Also, I thought System Restore wouldn't work on FAT32 drives? Thanks, Regardless of *why* these System Restore points are being created, perhaps the best way for you to deal with the situation is to turn SR *on* for all partitions and use the "Settings" tab of the SR User Interface to set the amount of disk space to use to the minimum (move slider all the way to the left). By default, in XP, SR uses 12% of the partition, which is too much space on today's large drives even if you *want* to have SR running. If System Restore runs out of the storage space that has been allocated towards its use, it will delete the oldest restore point in order to create space for the new restore point. System Restore actually creates restore points under at least 5 different circumstances: 1. scheduled restore points (system checkpoints) (approx every 24 hours) 2. before a restore to a restore point (so you can UNDO the restore) 3. before installing Windows updates received via AutoUpdate 4. before installing an app that uses a SR-compatible installer (e.g. InstallShield). 5. manually created restore points Turning SR off *should* not only disable the creation of system checkpoints (which also relies on the Task Scheduler service), but also should stop SR from checking for events 3 and 4. You can use services.msc to see if the System Restore service is actually stopped when you tell it to "Turn off System Restore on all drives." It may be that the applications that you are installing do not rely on SR being triggered by the installation but instead create a manual restore point. I know that some antimalware apps (e.g., Spybot Search & Destroy) can optionally create a restore point prior to deleting malware that the app has identified. Perhaps the apps you are installing do the same. In this case, your SR configuration settings are being bypassed. You can delete SR points that are created by your app installations. Use the user interface to turn SR on for each partition that has SR points and then turn it off or use the Disk Cleanup tool (cleanmgr.exe) for each partition and specify "remove all but the most recent restore point" on the "More Options" tab. In Vista and Win 7, SR relies on the "shadow copy" feature of NTFS and thus can't monitor FAT32 partitions. In XP, SR works differently (see, e.g., http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/...e/backup.mspx). -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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System Restore all off, still creating restore points on 2ndparti
On Feb 10, 9:31*pm, WB wrote:
Although we have System Restore turned off on all drives, restore points are still being created on the secondary partitions. The OS partiton is drive C, NTFS. The secondary partition is drive D, FAT32. The restore points are being created when applications (i.e. DirectX, WinDVD, etc.) are installed from the second partition (drive D). We must install these from a secondary partition. What are we missing? These restore points are filling up our drives. Also, I thought System Restore wouldn't work on FAT32 drives? Thanks, -- Bill Baker Do you mean Automatic Restore Points are no longer being created, but when you install some programs, the installation program creates a new RP for you as part of the installation? This is so you can restore back if the new program installation fails. If you don't like it, change it. Restore points are set to only take 12% of your drive by default, but you can adjust that. It is damn near impossible for RPs to fill up a HDD - they do not accumulate forever and will stop being created before you run out of HDD unless something else is wrong. How big is your HDD and what are your settings and would you like to change them? Perhaps a better understanding of how System Restore works will help guide you and simultaneously relieve any possibility of frustration and misunderstandings. |
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System Restore all off, still creating restore points on 2nd p
Thanks for the replies. I was able to watch an OS installation and noticed
that a restore point is created immediately on my D drive (drive 0, partition 2). The files that it backed up are files that get copied from a network share to the D partition (not necessarily when apps are installed from the D drive). I'll try setting the DiskPercent registry entry to "0" or "1". I did try to set the "CreateFirstRunRp" to 0, but that didn't help. We do need an "automated" method for disabling (or reducing the size of) the system restore points. Thanks again, -- Bill Baker "Jose" wrote: On Feb 10, 9:31 pm, WB wrote: Although we have System Restore turned off on all drives, restore points are still being created on the secondary partitions. The OS partiton is drive C, NTFS. The secondary partition is drive D, FAT32. The restore points are being created when applications (i.e. DirectX, WinDVD, etc.) are installed from the second partition (drive D). We must install these from a secondary partition. What are we missing? These restore points are filling up our drives. Also, I thought System Restore wouldn't work on FAT32 drives? Thanks, -- Bill Baker Do you mean Automatic Restore Points are no longer being created, but when you install some programs, the installation program creates a new RP for you as part of the installation? This is so you can restore back if the new program installation fails. If you don't like it, change it. Restore points are set to only take 12% of your drive by default, but you can adjust that. It is damn near impossible for RPs to fill up a HDD - they do not accumulate forever and will stop being created before you run out of HDD unless something else is wrong. How big is your HDD and what are your settings and would you like to change them? Perhaps a better understanding of how System Restore works will help guide you and simultaneously relieve any possibility of frustration and misunderstandings. . |
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