Turn On or Off System Protection for Drives in Windows 10  

SM03 said:

I mean with reg file? the tutorial that u shared has no reg tweaking

I'm only aware of a command way, but it's 5% by default anyways.

SM03 said:

If 5 is the default % then forget it, am ok with that, now I am asking for a reg file (to integrate that with Windows ISO) that enables the SR for all users since the very first boot of a PC after a clean installation. Is this possible?

So far for me, system protection has been turned on by default for the Windows drive.

I'm only aware of the command methods in this tutorial though.

empleat said:

Can't turn on system protection on another disk other than system disk. I tried it powershell way:
Enable-ComputerRestore -Drive "F:"
It fails and gives me this message:

Code:

Enable-ComputerRestore : Include System Drive in the list of Drives.At line:1 char:1+ Enable-ComputerRestore -Drive "F:\"+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Enable-ComputerRestore], ArgumentException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : EnableComputerNoSystemDrive,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.EnableComputerRestoreCommand

I also try to disable turn off system restore in gpedit.msc, but it was not configured, doubt it was that and i read microsoft forums and couple posts and didn't find anything useful. How to solve this ? I should also mention, button turn of system protection is greyed out for any other disk.

Hello empleat,

Just to verify, what type of file system does these other disks have?

System protection will only be available for NTFS formatted disks.

If they are NTFS, please go ahead and post screenshots showing your System Protection settings to see if anything may stand out for these drives.

empleat said:

All disks are NTFS, some are GPT. There are no warning messages nothing, button is just greyed out.

You might check using the tutorial below to see if you may have mistakenly disabled system restore.

Enable or Disable System Restore in Windows