Please help relocate Win 7 "System Restore" file location

[irishbug]

Hey guys, Happy Labor day for those celebrating it! In an effort to save precious hard drive space on my Crucial C300 SSD, I am considering moving the system restore image file that is saved by Windows 7. I am running a RAID 0 setup 1.2GB in size, and I think I would like to see if I can manage to relocate that image file that Windows creates over to there. I realize that if my RAID goes, I'll lose both drives and everything on it, but I'm willing to take that risk. That's not to say that I won't configure some sort of daily backup for just that image file in the future either, we'll see. I tried to do it through the utility itself but there isn't any option there for using a different location to save the images, only the size you'll let it take up, which in my case, the SSD is only 128GB in size, that's not much. If I could somehow configure this, I would probably let it be the max size on the other partition, who knows. Too bad it's not like configuring the Page File, you can easily decide the location for its' storage. I have scoured the internet trying to find something on this but to no avail, I wonder if I'm not using the correct search words maybe? I also want opinions on Gigabytes backup software utility as well. Has anyone ever used it before, was it successful? If I used that, I could close the Microsoft version altogether, thoughts please? If someone knows this one straight away, can you please tell me how it's done? Or if someone can give me a link to it on the net, that would be even better. Again, thanks a lot for taking the time here.

 

[Dark Mantis]

Try using this info to help you.
Previous Versions. Previous Versions is available as a tab in the Properties dialog box for any item. To access the Previous Versions tab, locate the file or folder that you want to restore, right-click the file or folder, and click Properties. The Properties dialog box will appear. Click the tab labeled Previous Versions.

[Wolfclaw]

A system restore file (system volume information) must be on the drive/partition it is protecting. Each drive/partition will have it's own System Volume Information folder for recovery of that particular partition/drive. This is the way the O/S is designed. You can do little to change it - other than turn off system restore on the partitions/drives you do not feel need the protection.

[irishbug]

A system restore file (system volume information) must be on the drive/partition it is protecting. Each drive/partition will have it's own System Volume Information folder for recovery of that particular partition/drive. This is the way the O/S is designed. You can do little to change it - other than turn off system restore on the partitions/drives you do not feel need the protection.

ummm ok. Maybe I'll go to a third party application that offers the same protection and see if I can store those images elsewhere. Thanks.