I have Two "System Volume Information" Files on my drive

[Guest]

I rebuilt a clean system on my computer by formatting a disk from WinXP Pro
loaded on another drive on this machine. After a Quick Format of the target
drive I created a folder at root and copied all of my data files from
backups to this folder and then did a standard install of WinXP Pro on this
drive. When I went to move the files from the folder I created I noticed that
there was a System Volume Information folder in the folder and there is also
one at root. I cannot delet the empty flder because it contains this file.
What is going on here?

Thanks

Kurt

 

[Hertz_Donut]

I rebuilt a clean system on my computer by formatting a disk from WinXP Pro
loaded on another drive on this machine. After a Quick Format of the
target
drive I created a folder at root and copied all of my data files from
backups to this folder and then did a standard install of WinXP Pro on
this
drive. When I went to move the files from the folder I created I noticed
that
there was a System Volume Information folder in the folder and there is
also
one at root. I cannot delet the empty flder because it contains this file.
What is going on here?

Thanks

Kurt

The System Volume Information folder is a file that is protected by Windows
File Protection System. You should not have copied it from the original
location. If the current "old" folder is empty, it is doing no harm and
should just be left alone.

Bob

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Kurt,

If I understand you correctly there's a System Volume Information (SVI) folder
in the root of C: and one in the folder data folder crated before the install of
XP Pro. Please correct me if this is incorrect.

The SVI folder is used by the System Restore service, Indexing Service and the
Encrypting File System (EFS). The default a SVI folder will be placed in the
root of each partition Windows sees. You may want to try to delete SVI folder
from the data folder in Safe Mode. If that does not work it may be necessary to
disable the System Restore service and the Indexing service. Disabling the
System Restore service will delete all existing restore points. EFS will also
have to be disabled if it is enabled.

Doing this may also corrupt the System Restores drive table. If so use this
article to correct the corruption.
Drive letter missing in System Restore settings page?
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/srdrives.htm