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D: & E: Drive

DasFox

DasFox

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If you have a D: and E: partition, are they suppose to have the 'RECYCLER' and 'System Volume Information' folders in them?

If so what causes the RECYCLER folder to get more recyle bins in them? My E: drive has 8 recycle bins in it.

THANKS
 
Windows creates them automatically. Recycler is temporary recycle bin space; if you were to move something in one of those drives to the recycle bin they would end up in the recycler on the respective drive.

System volume information is for system restore; if that folder exists it means that system restore is either enabled, or was enabled in the past on one point for those volumes.

-Erik
 
one recycle bin per user btw. that's a SID you are looking at in the filename.

In addition to system restore points, systemvolumeinformation is also used by the volume snapshot provider (vsp... often associated with shadow copy). Data will grow and shrink in there as open files are touched during a backup.

 
System Restore was turned off when I installed XP, so can I delete the 'System Volume Information' folder? And one recycle bin per user btw. that's a SID you are looking at in the filename, HUH what do you mean?

There should only be one recycle bin at a time in here? I have 8 in my E: partition, but I was moving data back and forth in this drive, so how do I figure which one to keep?

THANKS

P.S. I figured out all the other 7 recycle bins to delete, LOL it was easy remove all of them BUT the one you can't LMAO.

 
System Restore was turned off when I installed XP, so can I delete the 'System Volume Information' folder?
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You're not going to break anything if you remove it; but generally it's a good idea to keep it around. As smilin mentioned it gets used for some other things like VSS also.
 
Please turn system restore back on. Limit the amount of drive space it uses if you are concerned. I strongly recommend keeping it on even if you have never used it.
 
The annoying thing I've found with System Restore enabled is sometimes virus/malware scans find things in there that can't be fixed because the files are all locked. It's still a nice feature though.
 
Originally posted by: Smilin
Please turn system restore back on. Limit the amount of drive space it uses if you are concerned. I strongly recommend keeping it on even if you have never used it.
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I also suggest leaving System Restore running for your system volume. For data-only volumes however it generally doesnt make much of a differance (so you may as well leave it on unless it's to avoid a particular issue such as dual-boot access).
The annoying thing I've found with System Restore enabled is sometimes virus/malware scans find things in there that can't be fixed because the files are all locked. It's still a nice feature though.
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Than you're going about fighting viruses/malware the wrong way. The key is to avoid getting infected in the first place; not the other way around.
 
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