Surely I can't be the only one to have experienced this in XP:
on a partition on a second HDD dedicated to video capture a system folder occupies a lot of space.
Right in the middle of the drive a substantial chunk is eaten up by "system files" and "reserved system space".
This defeats the whole point of allocating massive lumps of HDD landscape soley for capture purposes.
The offending "system volume information" folder can not be deleted nor resized by changing recycle bins blah, blah.
Reformatting the drive simpy respawns the folder.
Deleting it is not allowed.
Using the command line "cacls" (as recommended by MS - whose kb article is simply replicated by other sages - does not work)
I am running XP pro on a stand-alone system as sole user/creator/admin.
I would be happy if I could even move the damm thing to the start of disk space!!
Has anybody else actually had the problem and managed to delete/shift the folder?
Appreciate any helpful input
jbl
on a partition on a second HDD dedicated to video capture a system folder occupies a lot of space.
Right in the middle of the drive a substantial chunk is eaten up by "system files" and "reserved system space".
This defeats the whole point of allocating massive lumps of HDD landscape soley for capture purposes.
The offending "system volume information" folder can not be deleted nor resized by changing recycle bins blah, blah.
Reformatting the drive simpy respawns the folder.
Deleting it is not allowed.
Using the command line "cacls" (as recommended by MS - whose kb article is simply replicated by other sages - does not work)
I am running XP pro on a stand-alone system as sole user/creator/admin.
I would be happy if I could even move the damm thing to the start of disk space!!
Has anybody else actually had the problem and managed to delete/shift the folder?
Appreciate any helpful input
jbl