# Do I Need Restore Points For Storage Only Hard Drive?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 7, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-restore-points-for-storage-only-hard-drive/584632 "2011-06-07T16:51:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-restore-points-for-storage-only-hard-drive/584632/1 "2011-06-07T16:51:49Z")

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I have three physical hard drives on my computer

The first one has the “C drive” and the “D drive”

The “C Drive” contains all the programs I have, the O/S. The “D Drive” is my recovery partition.

I have two other separate physical hard drives.

The “M” Drive is a 2tb drive I use for music and word text documents.  
The “S” Drive is a 2tb drive I use for storage of pictures, DVD’s I’ve ripped etc

I have a ton of space, so that’s not the issue, but I was thinking when my system creates a restore point, it creates one for all drives.

Is this really needed? I mean restore points don’t effect pictures, music (wavepack, mp3 fiiles) or document files or DVDs I’ve ripped.

So while I know it doesn’t hurt to make the restore points, is it really needed?

I run Vista SP2. All the drives are internal drives

If I got rid of the storage points for the “M Drive” and “S Drive” which are just storage would it matter.