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vinifera

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i have about 10 "folders" on my 2nd partition named like

"_restore{38E91C9A-E678-4BD6-97F6-7A758759477C}" under D:\System Volume Information

some date even from my years of using WinME (2003)

some from XP (2007)

and I see them using Everything searcher

but I can't remove them

I do have disabled sys restore all together on both partitions

when I go to "explore" them via CMD, it reports "path not found"

Unlocker can't remove them (even if they have no handle)

I can't enter D:\System Volume Information via cmd as access is denied, thus any attrib can't be removed

so what should I do ? :P

is booting via PE only choice to remove them ?

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Not sure how Win7 works (have yet to test-install it), but on XP you could Disable System Restore entirely, reboot, Enable System Restore and the Restore Points would be gone (a single new one is created).

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310405

This disables it on all drives, not just selected ones.

Is there a "Disk Cleanup" utility?

HTH

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How

Maybe you won't need to take ownership (first part), just add yourself with full control (click "ADD" when you're at the last image, then type your username, or Administrators, or Everyone, then click on the topmost checkbox "full control").

GL

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is booting via PE only choice to remove them ?

The hidden and not accessible from Windows "System Volume Information" folder collects historical system volume information since the volume was first used.

It may be easily deleted using a Linux Live CD or Flash Pendrive file manager to recover a lot of lost disk space.

The "System Volume Information" folder will be inmediately rebuilt by Windows at reboot containing current data only.

HTH

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1. yes i have disk cleanup, the cleaning restore points didn't help

2. i tried with full permitions and all that, nothing happens

:P

think ill try via ERD commander then

they don't take much space but are annoying to have something so old and useless :P

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