glasskuter
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I've got thes ame problem as others are having regarding losing restore points. I have read extensively about possible fixes both in this forum and others but nothing works for me. The following is what I've done. Anything that anyone can suggest would be greatly appreciated.
1. Partitioned one hard drive in 2 partitions. Did fresh install of Windows 7 and fresh install of Windows 8 on partitions. Installed Windows 7 first. Dual boot worked as expected. Originally left Win8 as default boot OS
2. When I went to make restore point on Win8 found that system restore was turned off on that drive.
I turned on system restore only on the drive where Win8 resided, set amount ofsystem restore space to maximum, and successfully made a manual restore point.
3. Booted into Win7. Checked that system restore was turned on. It was and I had restore points present.
4. Booted back into Win8. System restore was turned off again and amount of restore space had been changed back to 0%.
I did the above steps several times with same result. System restore would work fine as long as I never booted into Windows 7 but once I did all restore points made in Win8 disappeared.
5. I then tried to apply the registry fix that was written back in the day of dual booting XP and Win7 where XP would delete Win7 restore points. (adding subkey of \DosDevices\D:with value of 1 to hklm\System\Mounted devices\ to Win7)
This didn't work either. Win8 restore points still disappeared as soon as I booted into Win7.
6. In Win7 I checked VSS service & found it to be set to “manual” which I changed to“automatic” and started the service. Made another restore point successfully.
7. Booted back into Win8 and BOOM-restore point I’d made earlier was gone and amount of system restore space had changed to 0%
8. Thought the fact that having Win8 as default might cause problem so made Win 7 default OS. Went through all steps again but restore points still get deleted.
I read about the Bitlocker feature but I really don’t know anything about it. Would enabling Bitlocker on Windows 8 solve this problem with Windows 7 deleting the restore points in Windows 8? Does anyone have any more suggestions that might help me? I really appreciate any help.
1. Partitioned one hard drive in 2 partitions. Did fresh install of Windows 7 and fresh install of Windows 8 on partitions. Installed Windows 7 first. Dual boot worked as expected. Originally left Win8 as default boot OS
2. When I went to make restore point on Win8 found that system restore was turned off on that drive.
I turned on system restore only on the drive where Win8 resided, set amount ofsystem restore space to maximum, and successfully made a manual restore point.
3. Booted into Win7. Checked that system restore was turned on. It was and I had restore points present.
4. Booted back into Win8. System restore was turned off again and amount of restore space had been changed back to 0%.
I did the above steps several times with same result. System restore would work fine as long as I never booted into Windows 7 but once I did all restore points made in Win8 disappeared.
5. I then tried to apply the registry fix that was written back in the day of dual booting XP and Win7 where XP would delete Win7 restore points. (adding subkey of \DosDevices\D:with value of 1 to hklm\System\Mounted devices\ to Win7)
This didn't work either. Win8 restore points still disappeared as soon as I booted into Win7.
6. In Win7 I checked VSS service & found it to be set to “manual” which I changed to“automatic” and started the service. Made another restore point successfully.
7. Booted back into Win8 and BOOM-restore point I’d made earlier was gone and amount of system restore space had changed to 0%
8. Thought the fact that having Win8 as default might cause problem so made Win 7 default OS. Went through all steps again but restore points still get deleted.
I read about the Bitlocker feature but I really don’t know anything about it. Would enabling Bitlocker on Windows 8 solve this problem with Windows 7 deleting the restore points in Windows 8? Does anyone have any more suggestions that might help me? I really appreciate any help.
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System One
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- Windows 8