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Stopping System Restore on removable drive
Windows XP sp2 all updates...
External Hard drive via USB... system restore consistently wants to monitor this drive, although I continually turn monitoring off on this drive (via My Computer / Properties)... is there another method to permanently turn off system restore to this drive? I still monitor Drive C, the main system volume... Thanks |
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Stopping System Restore on removable drive
Hi,
System Restore in Windows XP was designed to monitor any partition it sees, including external drives. A *possible* work around is to assign a permanent drive letter (the higher in the alphabet the better) to the external drive via Disk Management. To access Disk Management, go to Start - Run and type diskmgmt.msc then press enter. Right-click a partition, logical drive, or volume, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths. Do one of the following: 1. To assign a drive letter, click Add, click the drive letter you want to use, and then click OK. 2. To modify a drive letter, click it, click Change, click the drive letter you want to use, and then click OK. Reboot the system. Open System Restore and stop monitoring that drive. This should keep System Restore from monitoring that drive, but not always. System Restore and external drives: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html#ExternalDrive Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org Member: http://dts-l.org Visum (M Byrnes) wrote: Windows XP sp2 all updates... External Hard drive via USB... system restore consistently wants to monitor this drive, although I continually turn monitoring off on this drive (via My Computer / Properties)... is there another method to permanently turn off system restore to this drive? I still monitor Drive C, the main system volume... Thanks |
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