I assume you have turned off the System Restore service on your XP computer.
You can then download a program called WinDirStat from Download.com.
After you install this program, fire it up.
The program will list out all your hard drives folders as well as in graphical form.
You can then access the System Volume Information folder.
Just highlight the "_restore{ .....}" folder and then go to the menu to choose "delete". Then the folder will be deleted.
Just a remark, you can even select to delete to recycle bin or permanently.
(Of course, logically no one will leave the files in the recycle bin because our objective is to get rid of all such files and reclaim the space on the hard drives.)
You have no need to restart your computer after deleting the restore point data files.
I came across this problem and found nothing really useful, but finally I found easy solution. So here's my share
I use this batch to conserve space on flash drives etc...:
Code:
X:
echo y|cacls "System Volume Information" /T /P Everyone:F
echo y|rd /s "System Volume Information"
pause
where X: is drive, where you want to get rid of that folder, which is really not needed whatsoever, if you have windows recovery turned off. This works on Windows XP home too.
If you have localized windows, you will have to replace "y" for equivallent letter for "yes" in your langauge.
Other cool trick, how to gain some extra space, is to use 64kB clusters, if you intend to store only large files (movies on flash drive for example) and set ntfs log (which has normally around 60 megabytes) to minumum:
Code:
format X: /fs:NTFS /a:64k /q
chkdsk X: /l:2048
Note, that if you want to change cluster size, you will have to format the volume, which will destroy everything on drive X:, chkdsk /l you can use safely on volume with data.
For me this works fine, but use at your own risk
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