sorry to say that vista chooses to delete any and all restore points except
for its own, it serches for its own restore point and upon finding the xp
one rewrites the header which it then no longer recognizes upon reboot, the
only thing you can try is to install vista to seperate drive completely and
dual boot in that fashion. It may or may not work. I am using that here and
so far had not needed yet to take a step back to restore.





"Ben" <bkatc@att.net.nospam> wrote in message
news:3F6A95BC-68D6-4B78-A673-B22EBAC42CD0@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I am a tech and need to have access to both XP and Vista. Quite often I
>need
> to reload one of my PCs that were used as a test bed.
>
> When I create Dual boot configurations using XP-PRO SP3 and VISTA ULTIMATE
> SP1 everything works fine until I sometimes try to restore a Vista
> complete
> PC backup from an external drive.
>
> The backups are created using Vista Complete PC Backup from within Vista.
>
> In the beginning the restore works fine but after half a dozen or so
> restores, Vista can no longer locate a viable restore image on the drives.
> It is as though the restore points are lost.
>
> This happens on Dell and IBM systems and I am using various brand external
> drives.
>
> Can anyone collaborate or shed some insite as to why this may be occuring?
>
> Thx
>
> Ben[/color]