System Volume Information

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Thomas Wendell

How can I get rid of these? It's on all my NTFS-drives and it won't go
away....


I've tried turning SR under Win+Break, both individually for the drives and
totally, but no help

For example,
C-drive 20GB, it takes 28MB
D-drive 20GB, it's 0MB
F-drive 140GB it takes 2.5GB

I know is's not a lot, but I'd rather it didn't exist, as I don't use it...



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Why do you want to get rid of the folder? If you turn system restore off the
folder will remain but be empty (there are a couple of very small files
which are no significent size). If you turn system restore off and the
folders still contain the sizes you list you need to take ownership of the
folder and delete the leftover files manually. If you want sytem restore you
need to have the folder.

Take ownership of folder.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech

Glen P
 
Thomas said:
How can I get rid of these? It's on all my NTFS-drives and it won't go
away....


I've tried turning SR under Win+Break, both individually for the drives and
totally, but no help

For example,
C-drive 20GB, it takes 28MB
D-drive 20GB, it's 0MB
F-drive 140GB it takes 2.5GB

I know is's not a lot, but I'd rather it didn't exist, as I don't use it...
Click to expand...


The System Volume Information is the folder in which WinXP's
System Restore feature stores information used to recover from errors.
By default, WinXP sets aside a maximum of 12% of the partition's size
for storing System Volume Information, but the amount of space set
aside for this purpose can be adjusted by the user. Start > All
Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore > System
Restore Settings, select the pertinent partition and click Settings.

If you don't want to use System Restore, simply turn off the System
Restore feature (Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools >
System Restore, System Restore Settings) and reboot. This will delete
all of your Restore Points.


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I'm glad I started reading these messages before I start with my litany of
complaints. As a personal note, I am a very old, DOS person, and I always
limit my file names and folder names to very short descriptives. I believe a
name is a name, not a novella.

Do you suppose I could change these folders to something like «Sys Vol Info»
or «SVI»?? It would annoy me a great deal less
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Hi Thomas,

Thomas said:
How can I get rid of these? It's on all my NTFS-drives and it won't go
away....
Click to expand...

A System Volume Information folder is put on each partition by System
Restore and can not be deleted. If deleted, they will just be recreated.
I've tried turning SR under Win+Break, both individually for the
drives and totally, but no help
Click to expand...

Stopping a partition from being monitored by SR should empty the SVI
folder.

The best advise is to only monitor the partition Windows is installed
on, and disable monitoring on all others. And set the disk space used to
just under 1GB. You will find more information on adjusting disk space
usage and keeping System Restore Healthy at the following link.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/healthy.html
 
Hi,
I'm glad I started reading these messages before I start with my
litany of complaints. As a personal note, I am a very old, DOS
person, and I always limit my file names and folder names to very
short descriptives. I believe a name is a name, not a novella.

Do you suppose I could change these folders to something like «Sys
Vol Info» or «SVI»?? It would annoy me a great deal less
Click to expand...

No can do. Why not just leave it hidden as it should be?
 
Ah, I have instructed the computer to show all files, hidden or not. Perhaps
I could re-think this.
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214/520-6655 voice
214/550-2618 FAX
 
Hi,

What I normally do is select "Show hidden files and folders" and check
"Hide Protected operating system files (Recommended)".
 
What I meant was I turned SysRestore OFF from WinBrk, but still there is (by
DirSize) 28MB left on C: and 2409 MB on F:

I didn't list E: , as that is formatted FAT32



System is: Asus A8N-VM m/b (BIOS 0610) , Athlon64 3200+ cooled by
Thermaltake TR2-M14, 2*512MB (-32MB for onboard gfx) Twinmos DDR400, 250GB
WD2500JB PATA, LiteOn SOHW-1693S DVD+/-RW DL, WT KM06 case w/ Macron
MPT-350P 350W PSU.

OS: Windows XPhome (SP2 and all fixes)


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If you are saying you turned system restore off but the folders still show
28MB and 2049MB look at my answer when you first posted.

Glen P
 
Sun said:
What I normally do is select "Show hidden files and folders" and check
"Hide Protected operating system files (Recommended)".
Click to expand...

Good recommendation. Like the PP, have "show hidden files and
folders" selected, but I never noticed the "hide protected O/S
files" option. I've now checked it, and it's "out of sight, out of
mind" for my SVI folders and probably other files that I don't really
ant to concern myself with.
 
Thanks, cleared out...


I do make a scheduled image twice weekly, and manualy if I do bigger mods on
OS...
Is it any use to monitor even C: , as I've under 2years of running XP has
restored exactly 0 times....?? ( I don't think I've had to use "Last Known
Good" either")
Only one rebuild of the system, and that was because with my "tweakings" SP2
wouldn't install.


I used to be a PC support person for 15years, but that was with older M$'s
OSs, like DOS 5.x, Win 3.x up to NT (both SRV and WS)
Now been unemployed for 5years, so I haven't too much experience with XP



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Hi Thomas,

Thomas said:
Thanks, cleared out...
Good.

I do make a scheduled image twice weekly, and manualy if I do bigger
mods on OS...
Click to expand...

That's a very good practice!
Is it any use to monitor even C: , as I've under 2years of running XP
has restored exactly 0 times....??
Click to expand...

I like having it around for a quick fix. System Restore is best used as
soon as a problem is recognized. The further back you go the more chance
there is of creating more problems. Leaving just under 1gb of disk space
to hold restore point is sufficient.

How to Adjust the amount of disk space System Restore uses:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspace.html

Keeping System Restore Healthy:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/healthy.html
( I don't think I've had to use "Last Known Good" either")
Click to expand...

Last Known Good Configuration is very limited:
Choosing the Last Known Good Configuration startup option provides a way
to recover from problems such as a newly added driver that may be
incorrect for your hardware. It does not solve problems caused by
corrupted or missing drivers or files.
When you choose Last Known Good Configuration, only the information in
registry key HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet is restored. Any changes you
have made in other registry keys remain.
Only one rebuild of the system, and that was because with my
"tweakings" SP2 wouldn't install.
Click to expand...

System Restore may have been a good (quick) option in this case.
I used to be a PC support person for 15years, but that was with older
M$'s OSs, like DOS 5.x, Win 3.x up to NT (both SRV and WS)
Now been unemployed for 5years, so I haven't too much experience with
XP
Click to expand...

Allot has changed, hasn't it!!!
 
if you want to get rid of them then open the command prompt
& type:chkpart then enter, this should display your partition table & what
you want to do, of course you may
have to reformat
 
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