Thanks again, Micirosift for your forthought...

I have a double boot Vista / XP. Today I wanted to use System Restore in Vista, but 
there was nothing there!

Apparently if you have a double boot with XP, the files are not compatible and the 
XP system wipes out the Vista restore files.

This is notwithstanding that I have disabled System restore on the Vista drive from 
XP, and vice-versa.

Grrrr... An annoyance indeed!

Tip: Run a free scan for common Windows errors ad

re: Vista System Restore with double-boot Monday, June 8, 2009 at 11:32 pm Posted by jbmcmillan (1055 messages posted) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Vista System Restore with double-boot Monday, June 8, 2009 at 11:55 pm Posted by NigelHH (1324 messages posted) Thanks for that! It is at least something, but: "Effects of this workaround After you restart Windows XP, you cannot access the volume that is created in Windows Vista from Windows XP. However, you can still access the volume that is created in Windows XP from Windows Vista. You must use Windows XP drive or an additional drive such as a USB thumb drive for data exchange. " [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum