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Pro's and Con's of turning off Restore for one volume ( partition)

by tcantrelln Feb 7, 2004 11:07PM PST

What is the 'down the road' payback for turning off restore for one volume ( partition), Pri Master is 40G-2 partitions, Pri slave is 120G in 4 partitions-one of which is always default "download to-" when a restore is done for whatever reason to the C partition, whatever recent programs-etc ( anything but data) saved to there is gone-If I turn off restore to that partition-I'm thinking that would stop this need to then go D/L whatever was lost during the restore..??

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Re:Pro's and Con's of turning off Restore for one volume ( partition)
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 8, 2004 4:22AM PST

Your choice on this matter.

But will infuriate most is that what may be a "simple" issue will not have a cure outside of System Restore because small issues are now being cured with this tool rather than research being done on the issue and a manual fix being developed.

Don't be surprised that you get to wipe the drive and install the OS from the beginning if you turn off System Restore. You are making the decision you are the expert and are removing the current first line of repair.

Best of luck,

Bob

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Not the OS partition
by tcantrelln Feb 8, 2004 7:20AM PST

That I would inhibit the restore on, but actually "F" partition on the slave drive, for its data and .exe purposes an occasional ghost image is sufficient...the actual issue is that when a restore runs- all partitions which have had recent .exe's saved to them,sometimes as backup, sometimes D/Ld there in the first place, loose the .exe so recently saved. I did think of creating a folder and naming it something- then after downloads- install to C , then rename the exe to something-like 2x5 which I would remember and restore wouldn't cause it to vanish and when I wanted the exe-I'd just rename it to exe..?? wouldn't that work-but not be as quick as disabling restore for that partition??

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Re:Pro's and Con's of turning off Restore for one volume ( partition)JMHO
by Brandon Eng Feb 8, 2004 8:48AM PST

Personally, I've turned off SR for the partitions that aren't C. I think the upside is that I wont bloat the system volume information folder, and my data on the other partitions will remain untouched. I've yet to see a downside to this. Your choice.

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by tcantrelln Feb 8, 2004 11:36AM PST

Thats about what I was hoping for too

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Re:Thanks- Hope it work out for you as it has for me. ;-) (NT)
by Brandon Eng Feb 8, 2004 2:22PM PST

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