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[Guest]

How can one erase the System Volume Folder? I tryed booting with the Wxp
MS-DOS startup disk but I can not access partition D!

 

[philo]

How can one erase the System Volume Folder? I tryed booting with the Wxp
MS-DOS startup disk but I can not access partition D!

you cannot delete it
you do not want to delete that folder
and you certainly cannot access an NTFS partition with a dos boot floppy


if you want though...you can turn off system restore

 

[John John]

How to add more power to Recovery Console by using Group Policy in
Windows XP Professional
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310497/

For XP Home do the registry edit. Why do you want to delete the System
Volume Folder?

John

 

[Guest]

Because I can not boot the partition. The partition will boot if the folder
is erased. So how does one use the registry editor to erase that folder?
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[Bruce Chambers]

Because I can not boot the partition. The partition will boot if the folder
is erased. So how does one use the registry editor to erase that folder?

You can't. The registry editor is used to edit the registry, not
perform file system maintenance.


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[Guest]

But John John suggested the registry editor!
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[Bruce Chambers]

But John John suggested the registry editor!
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To delete folders from the hard drive? I can't imagine where he'd have
gotten such an idea.


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[John John]

You can't use the registry editor to erase/delete files or folders! Did
you read the article?

In your first post you stated that you "tryed booting with the Wxp
MS-DOS startup disk but I can not access partition D!" I assumed,
(maybe or probably incorrectly), that you booted to the Recovery Console
and that you were trying to delete folders from there. If you are
really booting with an MS-DOS disk it *is not* a Windows XP disk and if
the drives are NTFS MS-DOS cannot access them. If you are booting with
the Windows XP setup diskettes or with the XP cd then you are not using
MS-DOS, you might be confusing the Recovery Console for DOS.

The default security settings for the Recovery Console limits access to
files and folders, from the Recovery Console you can access these folders:

- The root folder of any drive
- The %SystemRoot% folder and the subfolders of the Windows installation
you are currently logged on to (in other words, the Windows folder and
its subfolders)
- The Cmdcons folder
- Removable media drives such as CD-ROM drives

All other files and folders are off limit while in the Recovery Console,
unless you give it more power by doing what it says in the article I
pointed you to. If the Windows installation can't boot then you cannot
change the security restrictions currently in place. You will have to
use other methods to delete the folder.

John