System writing information to installed zip drive

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Wayne

About two weeks ago my system started writing system
information on my installed zip disk into a folder called
System Volume Information with a sub folder called
catalog.wci. There is also a folder called FOUND.000
that has been created and contains files that appear to
have been created from scan disk running. I have not
made any changes to my system setting and need to find
out how to stop this from happening because when the
system is using the zip drive it almost comes to a
complete stop. I have scanned for viruses with Norton
and have their most current definitions.
 
Disable system restore on that drive. You can delete the CHK files in found
folder. These were created by running chkdsk.
 
When I go to System properties and select the System
Restore tab to disable it for that drive, the D: drive is
not there only my C: drive. Is there another way to
disable it?
 
The System Volume Information is there because your drive is most likely
formatted in NTFS. The Restore feature of WindowsXP will also store it's
restore files here. Normally you should not be able to see what is inside
this folder and it looks to me you used some sort of DOS utility such as
NTFSDOS to peek there.
 
The file system on the zip disk is FAT. When I go to the
System restore in Windows XP my D: drive is not listed as
is my C: drive because I was told to disable it. I went
to folder options and had it allow me to see system files
when I got a warning that it could not write a system
file to the D: drive. There is no reason for this to be
happening and I just want it to stop because it messes up
(slows like in molasses) my computer when it is writing
to and reading these files. It is also taking up almost
100 MB of space that unnecessary. Your response did not
answer my question.
 
This is little confusing. How did you disabled the D drive in order to not
show it in the System Restore properties? Then, what does the ZIP drive have
to do with it? Since the ZIP drive will never be shown in this area unless
you have some strange problem with your system. Are you saying that the ZIP
drive is the D drive? One possibility I see is that you may have been
changing the drive letter assignments of some other drive using the Disk
management and somehow the ZIP drive is seen as a non-removable hard disk
using the same drive letter.
Also, since you logged on as Wayne the first time, and now you are logged on
as Anonymous, you may want to stay with one or the other.
 
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