Hijacked Hard Drive

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From: Hi Sam! (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:04:45 -0700

Thanks for the info. Good thing I now have terrabyte of
space! I love system restore so I just can't bring myself
to shut it off. This is the second time it has saved me
boatloads of time (the first time for a driver issue).

BTW, I found out that Disk Cleanup allows you to delete
all of your restore points except the most recent. So, I
just created a new restore point, restored the system to
it and then erased the old restore points. Still being
able to delete individual points would have prevented
this rant in the first place and seems a natural feature
for a tool that does a wonderful job of fixing virus
problems and driver issues.

Thanks for taking the time to reply!

Rick

>-----Original Message-----
>Interestingly, with FAT32 one could delete individual
>restore points, but not with NTFS. However, you can
>delete all or them, or all but the last one... which I
>frequently do. What, really, is more useless than a SRP
>that's two weeks old?
>and, Ric, it's not just the root directory of C:, but
>all the drives in your system, and unless you've changed
>the setting, it is taking up to 12% of your HDD space.
>s -----------------------------------------------------
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I recently found out that there is a portion of the
hard
>>drive called "System Volume Information" (it's in the
>>root directory) where restore points and god knows what
>>else is stored by the operating system. I say this
>>because you aren't allowed to access this directory and
>>you should be able to.
>>
>>I have a virus lurking in one of my restore points and
I
>>recently asked how it could be deleted. I'd like to
thank
>>the folks who helped me figure out how to fix this
>>concern.
>>
>>In a perfect world, I'd just go in and delete that
file.
>>But I am not even allowed to access the information
>>in "System Volume Information." I'm sure that Microsoft
>>would argue that this is for my protection. However, I
>>can go in and change system files, kill my machine with
>>nary a wimper from Windows.
>>
>>I am going to ask my lawyer about the legalities of
this.
>>I think that it is odd that Microsoft has claimed space
>>on my hard drive that I can't access.
>>
>>Again, I'd like to say thanks to all of the people who
>>spend hours of their time in these groups to help out
>>those of us less computer literate.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Ric
>>.
>>
>.
>

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