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System Volume Information needed

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Henry

Flightless Bird
I'm running a 3GHZ Dell with 2G RAM and WINXP Pro SP2 and a Seagate
500GB external Hard Drive.

I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits
of information in it. It has a grayed out Read Only box under
properties. I've turned off System Restore for this drive, I've of
course tried delete, and I've reformatted this drive twice. I can not
get rid of the folder. Again, it's on my external hard drive, drive
(K:/), it's *not* the one on my C:/ drive which I know enough to leave
alone.

Does any one know how I can get rid of this folder please?

Thanks,

Henry
 
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philo

Flightless Bird
On 08/03/2010 06:41 PM, Henry wrote:
> I'm running a 3GHZ Dell with 2G RAM and WINXP Pro SP2 and a Seagate
> 500GB external Hard Drive.
>
> I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
> folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
> doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits of
> information in it. It has a grayed out Read Only box under properties.
> I've turned off System Restore for this drive, I've of course tried
> delete, and I've reformatted this drive twice. I can not get rid of the
> folder. Again, it's on my external hard drive, drive (K:/), it's *not*
> the one on my C:/ drive which I know enough to leave alone.
>
> Does any one know how I can get rid of this folder please?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Henry


Moot point

even if you delete it,
Windows will just create a new folder


since System Restore is turned off, it will be empty
so it will take up essentially no room on your drive
 
H

Henry

Flightless Bird
philo wrote:

> On 08/03/2010 06:41 PM, Henry wrote:
>
>> I'm running a 3GHZ Dell with 2G RAM and WINXP Pro SP2 and a Seagate
>> 500GB external Hard Drive.
>>
>> I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
>> folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
>> doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits of
>> information in it. It has a grayed out Read Only box under properties.
>> I've turned off System Restore for this drive, I've of course tried
>> delete, and I've reformatted this drive twice. I can not get rid of the
>> folder. Again, it's on my external hard drive, drive (K:/), it's *not*
>> the one on my C:/ drive which I know enough to leave alone.
>>
>> Does any one know how I can get rid of this folder please?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Henry
>
>
>
> Moot point
>
> even if you delete it,
> Windows will just create a new folder
>
>
> since System Restore is turned off, it will be empty
> so it will take up essentially no room on your drive
Why will windows create in on my external hard drive? It wasn't there
before I did something stupid. You are right, it is empty.

Henry
 
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Daave

Flightless Bird
Henry wrote:
> I'm running a 3GHZ Dell with 2G RAM and WINXP Pro SP2 and a Seagate
> 500GB external Hard Drive.
>
> I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
> folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
> doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits
> of information in it. It has a grayed out Read Only box under
> properties. I've turned off System Restore for this drive, I've of
> course tried delete, and I've reformatted this drive twice. I can not
> get rid of the folder. Again, it's on my external hard drive, drive
> (K:/), it's *not* the one on my C:/ drive which I know enough to leave
> alone.
>
> Does any one know how I can get rid of this folder please?

Check out this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...e_frm/thread/80a20c0c249dbca/3677140a604159cc
 
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philo

Flightless Bird
On 08/03/2010 08:46 PM, Henry wrote:
> philo wrote:
>
>> On 08/03/2010 06:41 PM, Henry wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running a 3GHZ Dell with 2G RAM and WINXP Pro SP2 and a Seagate
>>> 500GB external Hard Drive.
>>>
>>> I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
>>> folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
>>> doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits of
>>> information in it. It has a grayed out Read Only box under properties.
>>> I've turned off System Restore for this drive, I've of course tried
>>> delete, and I've reformatted this drive twice. I can not get rid of the
>>> folder. Again, it's on my external hard drive, drive (K:/), it's *not*
>>> the one on my C:/ drive which I know enough to leave alone.
>>>
>>> Does any one know how I can get rid of this folder please?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Henry
>>
>>
>>
>> Moot point
>>
>> even if you delete it,
>> Windows will just create a new folder
>>
>>
>> since System Restore is turned off, it will be empty
>> so it will take up essentially no room on your drive
> Why will windows create in on my external hard drive? It wasn't there
> before I did something stupid. You are right, it is empty.
>
> Henry



Bill Gates knows what's best for you :)
 
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Don Phillipson

Flightless Bird
"Henry" <wa0goz@arrl.net> wrote in message
news:i3a9eg$d3m$1@news.eternal-september.org...

> I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
> folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
> doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits

This is an artifact of the NTFS format procedure. If you reformat
in FAT32 you will not see it.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
 
H

Henry

Flightless Bird
Don Phillipson wrote:
> "Henry" <wa0goz@arrl.net> wrote in message
> news:i3a9eg$d3m$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>
>
>>I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
>>folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
>>doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits
>
>
> This is an artifact of the NTFS format procedure. If you reformat
> in FAT32 you will not see it.
>
How do I format in FAT32 please? When I click on format, the only
choice I have is NTFS.

Henry
 
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Mark Adams

Flightless Bird
"Henry" wrote:

> Don Phillipson wrote:
> > "Henry" <wa0goz@arrl.net> wrote in message
> > news:i3a9eg$d3m$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> >
> >
> >>I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
> >>folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
> >>doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits
> >
> >
> > This is an artifact of the NTFS format procedure. If you reformat
> > in FAT32 you will not see it.
> >
> How do I format in FAT32 please? When I click on format, the only
> choice I have is NTFS.
>
> Henry
> .
>

Do the reformatting in Disk Management. Detete the partition on the external
drive (make sure you select the correct drive letter), recreate the
partition, then format FAT32. Keep in mind that the FAT32 file system cannot
handle files larger than 4 GB. If you plan on keeping multi-GB drive images
or large video files for example, on the external disk, it will have to be
formatted NTFS.
 
J

John John - MVP

Flightless Bird
On 8/4/2010 2:28 PM, Henry wrote:
> Don Phillipson wrote:
>> "Henry" <wa0goz@arrl.net> wrote in message
>> news:i3a9eg$d3m$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>>
>>> I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
>>> folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
>>> doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits
>>
>>
>> This is an artifact of the NTFS format procedure. If you reformat
>> in FAT32 you will not see it.
>>
> How do I format in FAT32 please? When I click on format, the only choice
> I have is NTFS.

The operating system will not permit you to format drives larger than
32GB to FAT32. And that's a good thing...

John
 
H

Henry

Flightless Bird
Mark Adams wrote:
>
> "Henry" wrote:
>
>
>>Don Phillipson wrote:
>>
>>>"Henry" <wa0goz@arrl.net> wrote in message
>>>news:i3a9eg$d3m$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
>>>>folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
>>>>doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits
>>>
>>>
>>>This is an artifact of the NTFS format procedure. If you reformat
>>>in FAT32 you will not see it.
>>>
>>
>>How do I format in FAT32 please? When I click on format, the only
>>choice I have is NTFS.
>>
>>Henry
>>.
>>
>
>
> Do the reformatting in Disk Management. Detete the partition on the external
> drive (make sure you select the correct drive letter), recreate the
> partition, then format FAT32. Keep in mind that the FAT32 file system cannot
> handle files larger than 4 GB. If you plan on keeping multi-GB drive images
> or large video files for example, on the external disk, it will have to be
> formatted NTFS.

Even when I do as you instructed, when I get to format the only choice
I have is NTFS. I do not have FAT32 as a choice.
 
B

Bob I

Flightless Bird
Henry wrote:
> Mark Adams wrote:
>
>>
>> "Henry" wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Don Phillipson wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Henry" <wa0goz@arrl.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:i3a9eg$d3m$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I won't bother your or embarrass me by stating I that I now have a
>>>>> folder on my Seagate drive entitled "System Volume Information" which
>>>>> doesn't belong there. It has zero folders, zero files and zero bits
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is an artifact of the NTFS format procedure. If you reformat
>>>> in FAT32 you will not see it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How do I format in FAT32 please? When I click on format, the only
>>> choice I have is NTFS.
>>>
>>> Henry
>>> .
>>>
>>
>>
>> Do the reformatting in Disk Management. Detete the partition on the
>> external drive (make sure you select the correct drive letter),
>> recreate the partition, then format FAT32. Keep in mind that the FAT32
>> file system cannot handle files larger than 4 GB. If you plan on
>> keeping multi-GB drive images or large video files for example, on the
>> external disk, it will have to be formatted NTFS.
>
>
> Even when I do as you instructed, when I get to format the only choice
> I have is NTFS. I do not have FAT32 as a choice.

The partition size will have to be cut to 32 GB to allow FAT32 to be
used. XP will only permit NTFS on anything larger than 32 GB. If
"seeing" the System Volume Information folder is the only reason you
have for wanting to format the partition as FAT32, I'd suggest you leave
the partition formating alone, as there are a few differences you may
discover you don't want. Simply REcheck the box for "Hide protected
operating system files (Recommended)", and ignore it.
 
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