I am using a Dell desktop with Win 7. I partitioned the drive and installed Win 8 upgraded to 8.1 as well. Everything on the Win 7 part works fine but on Win 8 part it allows me to create a restore point but if I change to Win 7 then back to Win 8 the restore point has gone and the max setting is back to zero. I tried all the things suggested in a previous thread by Brink but to no avail
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This workled in another thread recently.
Boot Win 7.
Open Disk Management and remove the letter assigned to the Win 8 disk.
Boot Win 8 and do the same for Win 7.
That way neither OS should be able to affect the other.
Boot Win 7.
Open Disk Management and remove the letter assigned to the Win 8 disk.
Boot Win 8 and do the same for Win 7.
That way neither OS should be able to affect the other.
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Found this, maybe it will work for you: Windows 8 : Restore points are deleted when switching to another system (dual boot)
Thanks again, although it was well beyond my comprehension I tried it but alas it didn't work. The reason I want to keep my Win 7 (which works okay) are old programs which won't work on Win 8 so I thought when Win 10 comes out shortly I would replace Win 8, that is why I wanted to get working correctly in case the fault carried on to Win 10.
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[DEL]From Windows 8.1, post a screen capture of a full screen Disk Management window with all fields expanded so all the text can be read.
To open Disk Management, press Windows key+r, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter or click GO. Make it full screen. Expand the fields as necessary so everything can be seen.
Boot to Windows 7 and repeat please.
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I see you posted while I was composing, ignore my post.
To open Disk Management, press Windows key+r, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter or click GO. Make it full screen. Expand the fields as necessary so everything can be seen.
Boot to Windows 7 and repeat please.
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When booted from Win 7, the Win 8 drive has Z: assigned to it. Remove Z: so there is no drive letter assigned.
When booted from Win 8, the Win 8 drive has D: assigned to it. Remove D: so there is no drive letter assigned.
From Win 8 you right click on Z:, select Change drive letter and path then select Remove.
Ditto for D: from Win 8.
What that does is remove the ability of one OS to do anything to the other OS drive/partition. That should fix the restore points being deleted.
When booted from Win 8, the Win 8 drive has D: assigned to it. Remove D: so there is no drive letter assigned.
From Win 8 you right click on Z:, select Change drive letter and path then select Remove.
Ditto for D: from Win 8.
What that does is remove the ability of one OS to do anything to the other OS drive/partition. That should fix the restore points being deleted.
I tried that after your first post but it didn't work, I had put the drive letters back as they were originally before I did the screenshots but to be sure I tried it again but it was still the same. I think I'll leave it for now and see what Win 10 brings so thanks again for all your help
Alan
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