xp deletes vista system restore points

I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

This is known and expected.
As an aside, I only let System Restore monitor the system drive of its own OS and not the volume of the other OS in multiboot scenarios.
"Barry C" wrote in message

I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

That is exactly what I am doing Colin .. XP restore monitors only the C drive and Vista monitors only the D drive. Should I still expect XP to wipe out Vista's restore points ? Is there any circumvention to this issue ?
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

This is known and expected.
As an aside, I only let System Restore monitor the system drive of its own OS and not the volume of the other OS in multiboot scenarios.
"Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

In article , Barry C says...

I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?
You need to disable system restore for the D drive in Windows XP and

also disable it for the C drive in Vista.
-- Conor Grumpy Old Man Same Shit, Different Day.

If you read my original post , you will see I am doing exactly that :)
"Conor" wrote:

In article , Barry C says... I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?
You need to disable system restore for the D drive in Windows XP and also disable it for the C drive in Vista.
-- Conor Grumpy Old Man Same Shit, Different Day.

Same problem here.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Barry C" wrote in message

I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

No, in a multiboot system you will lose the Vista restore points when you boot the other OS.
"Barry C" wrote in message

That is exactly what I am doing Colin .. XP restore monitors only the C drive and Vista monitors only the D drive. Should I still expect XP to wipe out Vista's restore points ? Is there any circumvention to this issue ?
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
This is known and expected.
As an aside, I only let System Restore monitor the system drive of its own OS and not the volume of the other OS in multiboot scenarios.
"Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

And why would that happen??? If I boot XP 32 and then XP 64 the restore points for them are fine. Why would Vista lose them?
-- ------ Paul ------ www.winxpvista.com "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

No, in a multiboot system you will lose the Vista restore points when you boot the other OS.
"Barry C" wrote in message That is exactly what I am doing Colin .. XP restore monitors only the C drive and Vista monitors only the D drive. Should I still expect XP to wipe out Vista's restore points ? Is there any circumvention to this issue ?
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
This is known and expected.
As an aside, I only let System Restore monitor the system drive of its own OS and not the volume of the other OS in multiboot scenarios.
"Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

It is a known problem. System Restore has been redesigned for Vista and its restore points are not detected as valid by XP and are therefore deleted.
"PaulM" wrote in message

And why would that happen??? If I boot XP 32 and then XP 64 the restore points for them are fine. Why would Vista lose them?
-- ------ Paul ------ www.winxpvista.com "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message No, in a multiboot system you will lose the Vista restore points when you boot the other OS.
"Barry C" wrote in message That is exactly what I am doing Colin .. XP restore monitors only the C drive and Vista monitors only the D drive. Should I still expect XP to wipe out Vista's restore points ? Is there any circumvention to this issue ?
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
This is known and expected.
As an aside, I only let System Restore monitor the system drive of its own OS and not the volume of the other OS in multiboot scenarios.
"Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

System Restore in XP does not recognize the Vista SR points as valid and deletes them. System Restore in Vista has been redesigned.
"PaulM" wrote in message

Same problem here.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

But XP is not set to monitor the Vista drive and Vista is not set to monitor the XP drive, so it should not matter.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

System Restore in XP does not recognize the Vista SR points as valid and deletes them. System Restore in Vista has been redesigned.
"PaulM" wrote in message Same problem here.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

It happens at boot up. It is not a function of monitoring anything.
"PaulM" wrote in message

But XP is not set to monitor the Vista drive and Vista is not set to monitor the XP drive, so it should not matter.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message System Restore in XP does not recognize the Vista SR points as valid and deletes them. System Restore in Vista has been redesigned.
"PaulM" wrote in message Same problem here.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

You mean you installed two Windows systems into separate partitions, and you expected each Windows system to behave in its own partition instead of hunting each other down and destroying each other? You don't have much experience with Windows, eh?
Up to a point, multibooting Windows systems is possible. That point is not a restore point.

Correct. When Vista goes final it gets its own box.
"Norman Diamond" wrote in message

You mean you installed two Windows systems into separate partitions, and you expected each Windows system to behave in its own partition instead of hunting each other down and destroying each other? You don't have much experience with Windows, eh?
Up to a point, multibooting Windows systems is possible. That point is not a restore point.

Taken from the release notes:
a.. If you boot a Windows Vista computer into a different operating system (including Windows XP) while a disk containing backups is connected, the backups will be lost. To avoid this, ensure that no backup disks are connected before you boot into a different operating system.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista.
CompletePC Backup cannot back up system or boot volumes that are smaller than 1 GB. You can use Disk Management or the diskpart command to extend a partition that is smaller than 1 GB so that it can be backed up.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
Backups will fail if you have any hidden volumes on the system. Before attempting to back up any volumes, ensure that you unhide hidden volumes with the diskpart command.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/d/8/7d8965b9-4a7c-4510-9987-ffa57c9ad2fe/relnotes.htm
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "PaulM" wrote in message

But XP is not set to monitor the Vista drive and Vista is not set to monitor the XP drive, so it should not matter.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message System Restore in XP does not recognize the Vista SR points as valid and deletes them. System Restore in Vista has been redesigned.
"PaulM" wrote in message Same problem here.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

Oops....this is the bit I meant to copy :
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.

-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;)
"Jane C" wrote in message

Taken from the release notes:
a.. If you boot a Windows Vista computer into a different operating system (including Windows XP) while a disk containing backups is connected, the backups will be lost. To avoid this, ensure that no backup disks are connected before you boot into a different operating system.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista.
CompletePC Backup cannot back up system or boot volumes that are smaller than 1 GB. You can use Disk Management or the diskpart command to extend a partition that is smaller than 1 GB so that it can be backed up.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
Backups will fail if you have any hidden volumes on the system. Before attempting to back up any volumes, ensure that you unhide hidden volumes with the diskpart command.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/d/8/7d8965b9-4a7c-4510-9987-ffa57c9ad2fe/relnotes.htm
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "PaulM" wrote in message But XP is not set to monitor the Vista drive and Vista is not set to monitor the XP drive, so it should not matter.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message System Restore in XP does not recognize the Vista SR points as valid and deletes them. System Restore in Vista has been redesigned.
"PaulM" wrote in message Same problem here.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

Can a CompletePC Backup be restored? I performed one which forced me to choose both my C partition and my Vista partition but when I press F8 at startup and go to the Recovery Console, it is just the old XP recovery console and doesn't give me a choice of Windows System Image Backup as is mentioned in the documentation.
"Jane C" wrote:

Taken from the release notes:
a.. If you boot a Windows Vista computer into a different operating system (including Windows XP) while a disk containing backups is connected, the backups will be lost. To avoid this, ensure that no backup disks are connected before you boot into a different operating system.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista.
CompletePC Backup cannot back up system or boot volumes that are smaller than 1 GB. You can use Disk Management or the diskpart command to extend a partition that is smaller than 1 GB so that it can be backed up.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
Backups will fail if you have any hidden volumes on the system. Before attempting to back up any volumes, ensure that you unhide hidden volumes with the diskpart command.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/d/8/7d8965b9-4a7c-4510-9987-ffa57c9ad2fe/relnotes.htm
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "PaulM" wrote in message But XP is not set to monitor the Vista drive and Vista is not set to monitor the XP drive, so it should not matter.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message System Restore in XP does not recognize the Vista SR points as valid and deletes them. System Restore in Vista has been redesigned.
"PaulM" wrote in message Same problem here.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

Can a CompletePC Backup be restored? I performed one which forced me to choose both my C partition and my Vista partition but when I press F8 at startup and go to the Recovery Console, it is just the old XP recovery console and doesn't give me a choice of Windows System Image Backup as is mentioned in the documentation.
"Jane C" wrote:

Taken from the release notes:
a.. If you boot a Windows Vista computer into a different operating system (including Windows XP) while a disk containing backups is connected, the backups will be lost. To avoid this, ensure that no backup disks are connected before you boot into a different operating system.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista.
CompletePC Backup cannot back up system or boot volumes that are smaller than 1 GB. You can use Disk Management or the diskpart command to extend a partition that is smaller than 1 GB so that it can be backed up.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
Backups will fail if you have any hidden volumes on the system. Before attempting to back up any volumes, ensure that you unhide hidden volumes with the diskpart command.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/d/8/7d8965b9-4a7c-4510-9987-ffa57c9ad2fe/relnotes.htm
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "PaulM" wrote in message But XP is not set to monitor the Vista drive and Vista is not set to monitor the XP drive, so it should not matter.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message System Restore in XP does not recognize the Vista SR points as valid and deletes them. System Restore in Vista has been redesigned.
"PaulM" wrote in message Same problem here.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

what i do is that i use just xp to create restore points both x:xp and y:vista ... if i have problems with vista i can restore it with xp ... well i didn"t really try to restore vista this way, but that's what i do ... as each vista restore points are deleted by xp ... i do'nt see another solution ... what i wonder is "does the vista registry will be backed up too ??" i should try to see ...
i think "sysytem protection" is not powerfull enough still ... we should be able to choose excatly what files in which folders we want always being protected and able to be restored if so ...
ex: i which to create a "restore point" with exacly all the files in "c:windows/system32" in "c:windows" etc. iso if i back up, the registry file will be too (for example)
"Tombraider42" wrote:

Can a CompletePC Backup be restored? I performed one which forced me to choose both my C partition and my Vista partition but when I press F8 at startup and go to the Recovery Console, it is just the old XP recovery console and doesn't give me a choice of Windows System Image Backup as is mentioned in the documentation.
"Jane C" wrote:
Taken from the release notes:
a.. If you boot a Windows Vista computer into a different operating system (including Windows XP) while a disk containing backups is connected, the backups will be lost. To avoid this, ensure that no backup disks are connected before you boot into a different operating system.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista.
CompletePC Backup cannot back up system or boot volumes that are smaller than 1 GB. You can use Disk Management or the diskpart command to extend a partition that is smaller than 1 GB so that it can be backed up.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
Backups will fail if you have any hidden volumes on the system. Before attempting to back up any volumes, ensure that you unhide hidden volumes with the diskpart command.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/d/8/7d8965b9-4a7c-4510-9987-ffa57c9ad2fe/relnotes.htm
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "PaulM" wrote in message But XP is not set to monitor the Vista drive and Vista is not set to monitor the XP drive, so it should not matter.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message System Restore in XP does not recognize the Vista SR points as valid and deletes them. System Restore in Vista has been redesigned.
"PaulM" wrote in message Same problem here.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

what i do is that i use just xp to create restore points both x:xp and y:vista ... if i have problems with vista i can restore it with xp ... well i didn"t really try to restore vista this way, but that's what i do ... as each vista restore points are deleted by xp ... i do'nt see another solution ... what i wonder is "does the vista registry will be backed up too ??" i should try to see ...
i think "sysytem protection" is not powerfull enough still ... we should be able to choose excatly what files in which folders we want always being protected and able to be restored if so ...
ex: i which to create a "restore point" with exacly all the files in "c:windows/system32" in "c:windows" etc. iso if i back up, the registry file will be too (for example)
"Tombraider42" wrote:

Can a CompletePC Backup be restored? I performed one which forced me to choose both my C partition and my Vista partition but when I press F8 at startup and go to the Recovery Console, it is just the old XP recovery console and doesn't give me a choice of Windows System Image Backup as is mentioned in the documentation.
"Jane C" wrote:
Taken from the release notes:
a.. If you boot a Windows Vista computer into a different operating system (including Windows XP) while a disk containing backups is connected, the backups will be lost. To avoid this, ensure that no backup disks are connected before you boot into a different operating system.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista.
CompletePC Backup cannot back up system or boot volumes that are smaller than 1 GB. You can use Disk Management or the diskpart command to extend a partition that is smaller than 1 GB so that it can be backed up.
a.. This note applies to Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows Vista Ultimate.
Backups will fail if you have any hidden volumes on the system. Before attempting to back up any volumes, ensure that you unhide hidden volumes with the diskpart command.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/d/8/7d8965b9-4a7c-4510-9987-ffa57c9ad2fe/relnotes.htm
-- Jane, not plain ;) 64bit enabled ;) Batteries not included. Braincell on vacation ;) "PaulM" wrote in message But XP is not set to monitor the Vista drive and Vista is not set to monitor the XP drive, so it should not matter.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message System Restore in XP does not recognize the Vista SR points as valid and deletes them. System Restore in Vista has been redesigned.
"PaulM" wrote in message Same problem here.
-- www.winxpvista.com "Barry C" wrote in message I have a dual boot system with XP installed on C drive and Vista beta 2 installed on D drive. I have XP system restore active for drive C and Vista beta 2 system restore active on drive D. When using Vista , system restore points are functional and I have done a successful system restore. The problem is after I boot my XP system the next time I boot Vista, the Vista restore points are gone ?? Multiple boots of just Vista retains the Vista system restore points just fine. Its only after I boot XP, on the next Vista boot the Vista restore points disappear . Anyone else have this problem ?

what i do is that i use just xp to create restore points both x:xp and y:vista ... if i have problems with vista i can restore it with xp ... well i didn"t really try to restore vista this way, but that's what i do ... as each vista restore points are deleted by xp ... i do'nt see another solution ... what i wonder is "does the vista registry will be backed up too ??" i should try to see ...
i think "sysytem protection" is not powerfull enough still ... we should be able to choose excatly what files in which folders we want always being protected and able to be restored if so ...
ex: i which to create a "restore point" with exacly all the files in "c:windows/system32" in "c:windows" etc. iso if i back up, the registry file will be too (for example)

what i do is that i use just xp to create restore points both "x:xp" and "y:vista" ... if i have problems with vista i can restore it with xp system restore ...
well i didn"t really tried to restore vista this way, but that's what i do ... as each vista restore points are deleted by xp ... i don't see another solution ... what i wonder is "does the vista registry will be backed up too ??" i should try to see ...
i think "sysytem protection" is still not powerfull enough ... we should be able to choose excatly what files in which folders we want always being protected and able to be restored if so ...
ex: i which to create a "restore point" with exacly all the files in "c:windows/system32" or in "c:windows" etc. so if i back up, the registry file (for example in c:/windows/system32) will be restore too ...

The system state created is for XP when you do that the way you describe. It will not save a Vista system state because, of course, Vista isn't running. When XP is running the Vista partition is nothing more than a data drive.
"strangequestion" wrote in message

what i do is that i use just xp to create restore points both "x:xp" and "y:vista" ... if i have problems with vista i can restore it with xp system restore ...
well i didn"t really tried to restore vista this way, but that's what i do ... as each vista restore points are deleted by xp ... i don't see another solution ... what i wonder is "does the vista registry will be backed up too ??" i should try to see ...
i think "sysytem protection" is still not powerfull enough ... we should be able to choose excatly what files in which folders we want always being protected and able to be restored if so ...
ex: i which to create a "restore point" with exacly all the files in "c:windows/system32" or in "c:windows" etc. so if i back up, the registry file (for example in c:/windows/system32) will be restore too ...