System Restore is only one of the victims. It affects all VSS related files
such as backups, CompletePC Backup images, shadow copies, etc. Google
"Volume Shadowcopy Service" to get an idea of just how extensive this is.

Backups are called "a good thing."

"BChat" <not@available.com> wrote in message
news:eRLx7DMOHHA.420@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Colin,
> Is it only the System Restore capability that is affected? If I were to
> dual
> boot (separate hard drives), back up each drive regularly, wouldn't I be
> OK?
> TIA
> BChat
>
>
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:eviMwpLOHHA.140@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Yes, you are very experienced and can do that yourself but it is not good
> general advice, IMHO. As a general solution I prefer the advice that dual
> booting XP and Vista may lead to the loss of the means to recover valuable
> data in the event of the need to do so.
>
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
> news:067F2189-3442-44A3-9867-41925D5589C4@microsoft.com...
>>I don't have any sort of problem with the volsnap.sys issue on my
>> dual hard drive configuration. Windows XP is installed on a
>> separate EIDE hard drive and Vista on a SATA hard drive. All
>> I have to do is open the BIOS and make a quick change to the
>> PATA/SATA startup preference. That way, Windows XP and Windows Vista
>> are 100% independent of each others boot loader.
>>
>> --
>> Carey Frisch
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Shell/User
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>>
>> That won't resolve the volsnap.sys issue.
>>
>>
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