System Volume Information folder

[Michael Seidner]

I am using XP Home w/SP2. The XP partition is NTFS. I also have a 10 GB
partition formatted FAT32 that I use mainly for disk images & some backups.
I noticed a hidden folder on this drive called "System Volume Information"
and when I opened it, there was a single folder called "Catalog.wci" (about
40+ megs.) What is this and why is it on my data partition? I have
indexing turned off for my NTFS partition and System Restore is not
monitoring any partitions but the NTFS one. Should I delete the
"Catalog.wci" folder or leave it?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Was the file created before Indexing & SR were turned off? If so, delete
it.

 

[Ace Weston]

If it is your data partition you should know every single file and
folder on it since windows should not be putting anything there. If you
don't know what something is, look at it, see if you need its contents
and if not, it's safe to delete.

 

[Michael Seidner]

Indexing is turned off but System Restore is turned on for my XP partition
only...not my data partition. I deleted the Catalog.wci file a day ago but
it is back on the data drive.

 

[Michael]

This catalog is also created if you are running IIS. Don't know if you are
or not.

 

[Michael Seidner]

Not running IIS but I tried, turning off System Restore, deleting the
"System Volume Information" folder from my data partition and also going to
"Add/Remove" windows components and removing the indexing service.

So far, no reappearance of the folder.