How to get rid of old System Volume Infom..

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I have this System Volume Information folder of about 4gig on
an old XP-system disk, which now is in use as a back up disk
on my Vista box.
After taken the ownership and the rights of the folder I´m
allowed coming into it, but not to delete it.
What I googled up on this issue apparently doesn´t hold.
Does anyone knows how to get rid of this folder.

Thanks.
/senn
 
senn said:
I have this System Volume Information folder of about 4gig on
an old XP-system disk, which now is in use as a back up disk
on my Vista box.
After taken the ownership and the rights of the folder I´m
allowed coming into it, but not to delete it.
What I googled up on this issue apparently doesn´t hold.
Does anyone knows how to get rid of this folder.
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Maybe the cacls command does a better job.
To give the user "UserName" full access to all files on X:

cacls X:\*.* /T /C /G UserName:F


Uwe
 
Uwe Sieber said:
Maybe the cacls command does a better job.
To give the user "UserName" full access to all files on X:

cacls X:\*.* /T /C /G UserName:F


Uwe
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No permission were given of deleting this folder running
cacls ......
A disk clean-up suggested by philo does not remove the last and
only restore point. It´s remarkable stupid not be given the choise
by Microsoft to clean-up ones disk for a huge crap of 4gigs.
Day by day ones aversion against that big stupid Animal grows
higher and higher.
/senn
 
Oldfart said:
You can always format the drive to get rid of it. Just save any keepers to
another drive beforehand.
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Thanks, I had that in mind as a last resort.
Yet, I´m astonished, such maneuver is necessary.
I still think it´s possible to alter something in the registry
doing it possible to delete this old unused
System Volume Information on that secondary drive.
A chance is somebody here knows how.
My new AVG antivirus found hackertools and something
called "Generic 12. PHK" (a Trojan horse) in it. It´s put in
the Wault. Norton Internet Security never found nothing of
this. Is that company a Big Bluff ?. One or the others.
Fortunately in this case I have anough vacant space on the
system drive to keepers. But would like to know if the other
I asked for is possible.
/senn
 
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