I use removable drives for backup. Obviously the second drive must have system restore turned off, because nothing should be changed on it. I can turn off system restore on the drive within XP, but everytime I reboot it is automatically turned on again. Is there any way to turn off System Restore permanently on just the one drive, but not the main system drive?

To disable System Restore from monitoring a particular drive, click Start followed by Control Panel and double click the System icon. Then click on the System Restore tab on the System dialog box. Depending on your disk setup, use the following instructions: • Single partition: Clear the Turn off system restore check box to disable System Restore. • Multiple disks or partitions: To prevent System Restore from monitoring a particular partition, click on the drive to disable and then the settings option. Clear the Turn off System Restore check box to disable monitoring the drive in question. You cannot disable monitoring of the system drive explicitly; you must disable System Restore for the entire system to prevent system drive monitoring. HTH i_XpUser

As I said, using Control Panel to turn off the monitoring of the drive is temporary - after the reboot following the backup procedure, it is turned back on automatically. I am looking for a method of turning off monitoring on the second drive permanently, but NOT turning off monitoring of the main system drive. -dan z-