reinstall system restore

if you are duel booting vista with xp there is a problem you can make a restore point on vista but as soon as you boot to xp it will delete vistas restore point i.e. after booting to xp then booting into vista the restore points will be gone, this happens wheather both os are on the same hdd or seperate ones.
 
There are a few artciles on how to correct the problem seen in a dual boot configuration with XP or any other older version. The question here would be if you are tunning Vista by itself or dual booting with another version of Windows?
 
PC eye , I 'd be interested in reading those articles because I do dual boot between Xp and Vista. Do you have any links?
 
If I'm right, you can either:
1. Install it from your CD with Vista operating system; just copy files that are missing,
or,
2. Download from Internet.
 
colt1911 said:
PC eye , I 'd be interested in reading those articles because I do dual boot between Xp and Vista. Do you have any links?
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Whenever you boot into XP the Vista restore points are lost as long as the Vista partition/drive is visible to XP. One article explains how to use NeoGrub in order to keep Vista hidden from XP. http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/hide-vista-partition-from-xp/

A second article is more of a blog by an MS MVP seen at http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/20...stem-restore-to-keep-restore-points-in-vista/

On the other side however you can readily see the large contrast of opinions about Vista compared to a 2/2006 article titled Vista Might Not Be Such A Bad Upgrade After All http://www.lockergnome.com/it/2006/02/28/vista-might-not-be-such-a-bad-upgrade-after-all/

The first comment was from someone who tried the beta not full version and never learned how to turn off the User Account Control feature. :P
 
The system restore feature comes included in Windows itself. If you lose that a repair install would have been one option for XP. For Vista reinstalling Windows would be the way to see that reinstalled. Since Vista lacks a safe mode /command prompt only option in the F8 boot menu manually starting the system restore is no longer an option.
 
so there's no way to re download it off the internet? (btw, if it helps, the error code is 0x8007007b
 
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Error: 0x8007007B - "the filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
System Restore will now close"
Press the WinKey on the keyboard and type or paste SystemPropertiesProtection then press enter.​
Deselect the "C: Missing" checkbox and select "Local Disk C:" to enable System Restore.

Cause: This error is caused by faulty imaging by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that results in the presence of an invalid volume.



http://bertk.mvps.org/html/eerrormsgsv.html#4

That was one bit of information found on that particular error.
URL Parsing
0x8007007b - The host name is invalid according to IDN rules.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250493.aspx

The system restore like other features in Vista are rolled into the OS. There's no separate downloads for hardly anything as far as Vista is concerned except FireFox 2.0 which is not even MS. That was never a separate item in XP either.
 
That's good news then. There's not too much presently found on how to manually repair things in Vista since it's the new MS wonder(or blonder as some would call it) now seen. It took some time to see good articles on XP to come out with a variety of fixes and tweaks for that version.

I saw someone pointing out how to use the recovery console in Vista and had to remind them that Vista no longer sees that when you boot from the dvd. It now sees automatic repair tools for startup problems. That doesn't leave you much room for manual repairs unfortunately.
 
ELITE1013 said:
how do you reinstall system restore on vista?
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Havent done it on Vista but in XP you can, in folder options check Show hidden files and folders, go to the Windows folder, open your INF folder, find the sr file, right click on it and click install, it might ask for you cd and it reinstalls System Restore.
 
Things were easier in XP even being able to perform a system restore from the recovery console by simply copying files from the System Volume Information>_restr(blah blah number)>snapshot folder into a sub folder found in the system32 directory according to one article seen at http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1167895,00.html

You could also start the system restore feature in XP by simply entering one command at the safe mode /command prompt only option found in the Windows F8 boot menu if you couldn't reach the desktop even in safe mode. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304449

Where did the recovery console go? The safe mode /command prompt only option was left out of Vista as well. The two big improvements found in Vista over XP are what keep it from just being another version of Windows mainly better crash control and now seeing a bug improvement with the drive tools included. You no longer need a 3rd party program to resize a partition whether in the Disk Management tool or booting with the install dvd.
 
PC eye said:
Where did the recovery console go? The safe mode /command prompt only option was left out of Vista as well.
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When you boot to the cd or dvd, when it gets to the harddrive page after loading the files dont click install, at the bottom there a Repair your computer, click that, pick the install, click system recovery options, then click recovery tools, there like 5 of them-Repair-Restore-Complete PC Repair- Memory tool- Command Promp.
 
I'm aware of the repair section on the install disk. The one thing not available is the option to install the recovery console as an item in the boot options as eeen with XP. Without an installation disk however there's no command prompt before the desktop is loaded for manual entries like starting ceck disk or the system restore process. Memtest is the memory tool there borrowed from you know who(Linux obviously).
 
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