I recently partnered with an IT fellow at Garmin Industries that headquarters close to my home, & we constructed a new i7, 920 desktop with 2) HD's....both WD Raptors....both 80% or better free.
No....I am not bicyling to (or) in France.

To the point as best I can:

I'm having a helluva time with my restore points disappearing.

I actually needed one the other night when I was cleaning out my documents (really needed one) , and ran across a Windows Theme File that I didn't recognize.

So....being the curious type I am, I quickly scanned it, opened it and WHAM.....all my desktop themes I spent hours getting set like I wanted were gone.
Problem: All and Any Restore Points were too.

I'm running x64 Vista Ultimate (oem, no disc) on the problematic HD, and 32 bit XP Pro on the other.

I am not proficient with Vista, (nor RAID tools) and hoping to skip over it, go to "7", and not have to sweat the learning curve.....much like I skipped Windows Me-stake.

When I open the 'puter and go into XP, check my restore....they're fine.

Then I boot into Vista: they're gone .....again.

What in the world am I doing wrong, Please?

I know I have a fubared version of Vista because I'm in this endless loop trying to install SP-2 and that 1 hour download takes me to the You need Readiness download, and then back to You need SP-2.

This really stuns me.
Microsoft has been working with me for a couple of weeks on this, and surrendered too.

They are.....Sending Me (unreal) a new retail version of Vista x64 Ultimate!
Holy..ga..............Wow!



Back to the original topic....what is going on with my Restore Points ?, or should I just be patient and wait until my new DVD arrives?

Thanks for any help...as usual.
(any and all wise a** comments are welcome too. It's been too long since I surfed as usual, and kept in touch around here)

Steve_83

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