How can I delete System Volume Information on non important drives...please help!!
I am having around seven hard drives. I am here only using one the IDE. This is the only drive that has my OS and the other one are on SCSI. Now here I had simply turned off system restore on the drives which I am using for storage. But somehow I can see System Volume Information folders. And I had found that it has accumulated more than 8GB of space on every drive. So that is really worse. I need some help to get rid of them.
Thanks for the tip on the System Information folder
Your link helped me as well Kaylene. FYI for everyone, in case you don't remember, the system restore also stores unwanted programs. McAfee located a PuP (potentially unwanted program) called PuP.j in the system restore folder. I'm sure it's the one that has been eating up my bandwidth and causing my system to act quirky.
I've decided, and making a suggestion to you readers, to disable permanently the Windows System Restore functionality and instead rely on software which makes a system image backup. This type of data backup and restore is used by large networks in industries where data integrity and storage are crucial. It may take longer than a Windows System restore and you have to be responsible for remembering when to do it, but this way you can keep in consecutive order each system image backup, by date, and select the one you want for backup. If you are concerned about how long it takes to make a system image for restore, start it before you go to bed.
Re: How can I delete System Volume Information on non important drives...please help!!
Sorry to Bump thsi old thread. I've been dealing with a similar problem. however. After i turned of Sys restore and deleted the folder, it re-created itself and i didnt have the permission to open/view/delete. So i rebooted in safe mode, and added users\administrators as a permission and deleted it again. upon reboot it re-creates itself.
I'm currently runnign XP on the 3rd Install after format day2 Vs virus
running Nod32 and AVG which are not detecting anything other then a periodic small virus that they are deleting. the original virus that i noticed was called virut, which was cloging my sockets so i couldn't update anti virus or get online.
Re: How can I delete System Volume Information on non important drives...please help!!
After struggling with all the previous responses and the justifiable bickering, I was ready to give up - that is until I read your email. Prior to this, no matter what I did, these directories kept magically reappearing on me. Your steps, though somewhat vague in areas, pegged the mark right on, literally hit the nail on the head - so far. Great solution. Really though, someone should not have to go thru these steps to obtain their desired outcome.
Now, I'm running Norton Ghost to back up my current internal harddrive to my external harddrive, and also want to create a restore point on my external harddrive as well (I'm increasing my current internal harddrive to a bigger size, and don't want to lose its current configuration and installations). Hopefully, my new hidden files on my external drive, does not screw things up for me.
Re: How can I delete System Volume Information on non important drives...please help!!
I Vista, and my SVI files amounted to 41 gb. I tried many different way to delete them, but to nothing worked. So here's what I did.
1 turn off the system restore.
2 reboot & check to see if the files gone. If so then good.
3 turn restore back on and create a new system restore file for peace of mind.
This works on XP also.
Re: How can I delete System Volume Information on non important drives...please help!!
@ Big_E65 Big_E65
sorry mate,
but did you read the thread starters question
properly?
on top your answer does not make sense
either way - why shall someone want to
create that carp folder to get it filled
with carp eventually???
regards