Vista system restore problems and solutions when dual booting

Recently, a friend encountered a strange problem: After installing a certain hardware in Windows Vista, Windows Vista runs frequently and is no longer stable. Originally, this is nothing, his system is not disabled. System Restore, just remove the hardware, find the system restore point before the modification, restore Windows Vista to the state before the modification, but strangely, he can not find any saved system restore points in Windows Vista Record, no recovery.

After receiving his email, we are also very strange. It is said that Windows Vista should not make such a low-level error. To take a step back, even if there are similar bugs in Windows Vista, I am afraid that the Internet will be stirred up early. . After many E-mail communication, we only figured out the configuration and application of his PC. The most important point is that he installed Windows XP and Windows Vista in the PC at the same time, and used multiple startup methods to guide each system separately.

Another point to note is that for Windows Vista and XP/MCE dual or multiple boot configurations, after booting XP, Windows Vista system restore points may not pass integrity verification, resulting in Windows Vista creation. The system restore point is missing.

This is why the friend's Windows Vista system restore point is lost.

How to use Windows Vista system restore when dual booting

To be honest, entering Windows XP for multiple boot will automatically delete the Windows Vista system restore file. So far, there is no ideal. Solution —— or a viable solution, but we didn't find it? If so, please leave a message to your friend —— however, if you make major changes to the system, such as installing new hardware, drivers, and new software that might modify the system's core, you want to use System Restore for disaster recovery. You can do the following:

1. This is the easiest way to manually create a system restore point before performing the corresponding modification. Check the system for stability as soon as possible after installation. Do not boot into Windows XP until the stability of the system is affected. That is to say, as long as you do not enter Windows XP through dual boot, the automatic restore point under Windows Vista will remain valid.
   
2. For friends with dual hard drives, if your PC supports booting from multiple hard drives, for example, the BIOS can see from “IDE0”,“IDE1”—— of course this only For the use of IDE hard drives, SATA hard drives also have similar options — — then, you can install Windows Vista and Windows XP on two hard drives, that is, do not use Windows Vista Boot Loader to implement dual boot, but use The BIOS boots the systems on the two hard disks separately. In this case, according to the test, entering Windows XP does not delete the system restore record of Windows Vista.