Re: System Restore

Stan Brown wrote:
> Indeed. By default it even monitors removable drives, which is
> particularly silly.

I agree! You can try assigning a permanent drive letter to the removable
drive to stop this from happening.

> I was able to turn off monitoring for my in-computer partitions, but
> I can't delete the "System Volume Information" folder from my
> removable drive even after turning off its monitoring.

System Restore places a SVI on any partition it sees. There is no way
around this that I know.

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Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org


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