Deleting D:\System Volume Information

[John]

My physical hard drive has two partitions, C: and D:
drives. I am set up (I think) so everything boots from
the C: drive.

I noticed that the D: drive also has a System Volume
Information folder, and am wondering if I can either
delete it or delete various files from it without hurting
my computer.

Please advise.

Thanks.

John

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

You can "try"!

 

[John]

Sysytem restore is turned off already. I just have this
system Volume folder in the D: drive that I don't know
why is there.

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
Hi John

You can disable System Restore on drive D:

Right click on My Computer>Properties>System Restore -

highlight the appropriate drive and then click on
the 'Settings...' button.

 

[CS]

If your drive is formatted to NTFS, you will be unable to remove the
folder. If you delete it, it will be created again on the next boot.
If your hard drive is formatted to FAT-32, remove the attributes from
the folder and any files in the folder and delete them. They will not
be created again until you turn on system restore once more.

 

[Alex Nichol]

My physical hard drive has two partitions, C: and D:
drives. I am set up (I think) so everything boots from
the C: drive.

I noticed that the D: drive also has a System Volume
Information folder, and am wondering if I can either
delete it or delete various files from it without hurting
my computer.

That contains System Restore points. On a purely Data drive there is
little point in having SR operational. Go to System - System Restore,
highlight D take settings and check 'Disable on this drive'. That
should result in all the content of the folder going, but check after a
reboot and delete anything left over. (leave the empty folder)

While about it, I would check the settings for C and review the amount
of space allowed. The default 12% seems too much to be a good thing on
large drives - I would have under 1GB and use 500MB, which handles a
couple of weeks worth of points