System Volume Information needed

[Henry]

I'm running a 3GHZ Dell with 2G RAM and WINXP Pro SP2 and a Seagate
500GB external Hard Drive.

I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits
of information in it. It has a grayed out Read Only box under
properties. I've turned off System Restore for this drive, I've of
course tried delete, and I've reformatted this drive twice. I can not
get rid of the folder. Again, it's on my external hard drive, drive
(K:\), it's *not* the one on my C:\ drive which I know enough to leave
alone.

Does any one know how I can get rid of this folder please?

Thanks,

Henry

 

[Don Phillipson]

I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits

This is an artifact of the NTFS format procedure. If you reformat
in FAT32 you will not see it.

 

[Henry]

Moot point

even if you delete it,
Windows will just create a new folder


since System Restore is turned off, it will be empty
so it will take up essentially no room on your drive

Why will windows create in on my external hard drive? It wasn't there
before I did something stupid. You are right, it is empty.

Henry

 

[Daave]

I'm running a 3GHZ Dell with 2G RAM and WINXP Pro SP2 and a Seagate
500GB external Hard Drive.

I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits
of information in it. It has a grayed out Read Only box under
properties. I've turned off System Restore for this drive, I've of
course tried delete, and I've reformatted this drive twice. I can not
get rid of the folder. Again, it's on my external hard drive, drive
(K:\), it's *not* the one on my C:\ drive which I know enough to leave
alone.

Does any one know how I can get rid of this folder please?

Check out this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...e_frm/thread/80a20c0c249dbca/3677140a604159cc

 

[Henry]

This is an artifact of the NTFS format procedure. If you reformat
in FAT32 you will not see it.

How do I format in FAT32 please? When I click on format, the only
choice I have is NTFS.

Henry

 

[Paul]

How do I format in FAT32 please? When I click on format, the only
choice I have is NTFS.

Henry

WinXP has an upper limit, as to how large a partition it will
offer to format FAT32. (Technically, FAT32 can be installed on
much larger volumes - check Wikipedia for the details. Microsoft
feels the performance would suck if you did that, which is partially
the reason for the limit.) To get around issues like that, there
are plenty of other ways to do it. This one is free.

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/download/fat32format.zip

If you have a Linux LiveCD, you can use something like
mkfs.fat32 or equivalent. Or a GParted CD if you have
one (but that one makes me nervous).

Or one of the many Windows utilities should be able to
do it. Like my old copy of Partition Magic will do it,
as far as I can remember. There might be some freebies
around, with functions like that, which would be capable
as well.

One other thing to remember about FAT32. The largest file
size it can hold, is 4GB. NTFS has a much larger limit,
and if you're working with movie files, then NTFS is a
much better choice. If all you do is smaller files, then
it isn't a big deal.

Paul

 

[Mark Adams]

How do I format in FAT32 please? When I click on format, the only
choice I have is NTFS.

Henry
.

Do the reformatting in Disk Management. Detete the partition on the external
drive (make sure you select the correct drive letter), recreate the
partition, then format FAT32. Keep in mind that the FAT32 file system cannot
handle files larger than 4 GB. If you plan on keeping multi-GB drive images
or large video files for example, on the external disk, it will have to be
formatted NTFS.

 

[John John - MVP]

How do I format in FAT32 please? When I click on format, the only choice
I have is NTFS.

The operating system will not permit you to format drives larger than
32GB to FAT32. And that's a good thing...

John

 

[Henry]

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Do the reformatting in Disk Management. Detete the partition on the external
drive (make sure you select the correct drive letter), recreate the
partition, then format FAT32. Keep in mind that the FAT32 file system cannot
handle files larger than 4 GB. If you plan on keeping multi-GB drive images
or large video files for example, on the external disk, it will have to be
formatted NTFS.

Even when I do as you instructed, when I get to format the only choice
I have is NTFS. I do not have FAT32 as a choice.

 

[Bob I]

Even when I do as you instructed, when I get to format the only choice
I have is NTFS. I do not have FAT32 as a choice.

The partition size will have to be cut to 32 GB to allow FAT32 to be
used. XP will only permit NTFS on anything larger than 32 GB. If
"seeing" the System Volume Information folder is the only reason you
have for wanting to format the partition as FAT32, I'd suggest you leave
the partition formating alone, as there are a few differences you may
discover you don't want. Simply REcheck the box for "Hide protected
operating system files (Recommended)", and ignore it.