system volume information

[Guest]

I am new at trying to backup information in an external drive. My recycle bin
and my system volume information is in this drive. Also, there is a folder on
my desktop now for the system volume information.Where can I put this folder
that is now on my desktop? and is it okay to have the recycle bin and the
system volume information in my external drive?

 

[Guest]

Is the folder for System Volume Information (on your desktop) a shortcut or
an actual folder? If it's a folder, did you copy it from the original
location on your hard drive?

System Volume Information is where Windows puts all of your System Restore
information. There's no harm in backing it up - but it won't do you much
good (the same goes for the Recycle Bin).

- John

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

I suspect the SVI folder on the desktop is a copy. Can it be moved to
the Recycle Bin?

The System Volume Information (SVI) folder is a super hidden system
folder. There will be a SVI folder on each partition or volume Windows
sees. The SVI folder can not be permanently deleted on any partition of
volume. If a particular partition or volume is set to not be monitored
by System Restore, the Indexing Service is turned off, and EFS is not in
use, the SVI should be empty or nearly empty.

System Restore uses the SVI folder to store it's information and hold
restore points.

If the Indexing Service is turned on (it's turned off by default), it
will use the SVI folder to store files. This will evident by the
existence of a folder called catalog.wci. Keep in mind that having the
Indexing Service turned on can cause the SVI folder to grow very large.

If Encrypting File System (EFS) is in use, it will use the SVI folder to
store the log file that is generated during the encryption and
decryption process.