My Vista RC1 FAQ

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Andre Da Costa said:
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Accepting Feedback and suggestions. :)
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Most excellent, bravo!

I do have a suggestion. I think you need to mention that
if a user is dual booting between WinXP and Vista, Vista's
System Restore points will be deleted.

Two ways to protect those Vista restore points- hide
the Vista partition from XP or use Bitlocker encryption.
Bitlocker will encrypt Vista's volume only, basically hiding
it from WinXP.


-Michael
 
Thank you for the compliment Michael, and will add your suggestion asap. :)
 
MICHAEL wrote:

I do have a suggestion. I think you need to mention that
if a user is dual booting between WinXP and Vista, Vista's
System Restore points will be deleted.
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I haven't seen that on my system which multiboots two installations of
XP Pro and two of Vista.
 
Rock said:
MICHAEL wrote:



<snip>

I haven't seen that on my system which multiboots two installations of XP Pro and two of
Vista.
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Are your partitions "hidden" from one another? It is a known
fact. If you have XP on one partition and Vista on another in
a dual boot environment- XP will delete Vista's restore points.
Search this group for System Restore and "volsnap.sys".
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
The problem is so difficult to fix, that Microsoft doesn't intend
to fix it.
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http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=3988711271891&lang=en-US&mkt=en-US&FORM=CVRE3

Release Notes for This Beta Release of Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" and Windows Vista

Due to changes in the underlying Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) infrastructure, shadow copies
and associated restore points are deleted on computers with dual-boot configurations where one
boot partition is Windows Vista or Windows Server "Longhorn" and the other is a previous
version of the Windows operating system.

If you boot the system into the previous version of the Windows operating system and then back
into the Windows Vista or Windows Server "Longhorn" operating system, System Restore will not
work until a new restore point is created. Shadow copies of files (previous versions) will also
be affected.
 
Unless you used a third party boot manager that hides Vista from XP or you
are using BitLocker on Vista you WILL lose not only restore points but other
VSS related files upon booting back into XP. This is established fact which
you can easily prove to yourself by setting a SP point in Vista and then
booting into XP. When you return to Vista you will not have the SR point.
MS has repeatedly remarked on this and the fact that there will be no fix to
XP to prevent the volsnap.sys driver in XP from doing this.
 
Rock said:
MICHAEL wrote:




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I haven't seen that on my system which multiboots two installations of
XP Pro and two of Vista.
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Ackk..wrong...It does delete them..sorry about that. Bugged it and
closed by design.
 
Colin said:
Unless you used a third party boot manager that hides Vista from XP or you
are using BitLocker on Vista you WILL lose not only restore points but other
VSS related files upon booting back into XP. This is established fact which
you can easily prove to yourself by setting a SP point in Vista and then
booting into XP. When you return to Vista you will not have the SR point.
MS has repeatedly remarked on this and the fact that there will be no fix to
XP to prevent the volsnap.sys driver in XP from doing this.
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Sorry I mispoke. Too many installations...lol...They are indeed deleted.
 
Rock said:
Rock wrote:

Ackk..wrong...It does delete them..sorry about that. Bugged it and closed
by design.
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It is actually an XP problem, not a Vista problem. XP does not recognize
any thing to do with VSS created by Vista because XP is not "aware" of
Vista. The corollary is that since Vista is aware of XP, it does not delete
any of the files created by XP.
 
A question I would like to see is:
"How do you use XP Drivers in Vista if native Vista drivers do not exist?"
This would be handy for anyone who has the troublesome RTL8187 wireless, for
example.

-- Andy
 
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