How to safely delete all System Information Volume content/System restore points ?

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Rod Newton

From the beginning of my WinXP installation I turned off Monitoring (and creating of System Restore points)
for my drive D: (I enabled it only for drive C:).

Much to my surprise I detected recently that some System Restore Points exist for drive D:

How can that happen?

I decided to delete them. With menu

START->Programs->Accessories->SystemTools->DiskCleanup

I can delete all but the last System restore Point and the necessary amount of hard disc space is shrinked to 20MB.
Fine. Is there a chance to get rid of the last 20 MB (=The last System Restore Point as well)?

Can I simply delete the SystemVolume Information folder or does this cause troubles ?

Rod
 
From the beginning of my WinXP installation I turned off Monitoring (and creating of System Restore points)
for my drive D: (I enabled it only for drive C:).

Much to my surprise I detected recently that some System Restore Points exist for drive D:

How can that happen?

I decided to delete them. With menu

START->Programs->Accessories->SystemTools->DiskCleanup

I can delete all but the last System restore Point and the necessary amount of hard disc space is shrinked to 20MB.
Fine. Is there a chance to get rid of the last 20 MB (=The last System Restore Point as well)?

Can I simply delete the SystemVolume Information folder or does this cause troubles ?

Rod
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Hello Rod,

Did you turn of System Restore on *both* drives? In the System Restore
tab of System Properties, highlight each drive in turn and click on
the Setiings button to turn off for each drive.
 
Rod Newton said:
From the beginning of my WinXP installation I turned off Monitoring (and
creating of System Restore points)
for my drive D: (I enabled it only for drive C:).

Much to my surprise I detected recently that some System Restore Points
exist for drive D:

How can that happen?

I decided to delete them. With menu

START->Programs->Accessories->SystemTools->DiskCleanup

I can delete all but the last System restore Point and the necessary
amount of hard disc space is shrinked to 20MB.
Fine. Is there a chance to get rid of the last 20 MB (=The last System
Restore Point as well)?

Can I simply delete the SystemVolume Information folder or does this cause
troubles ?
Click to expand...

Turning off System Restore will remove all restore points.
 
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