A confirmation window will appear. Click Continue to confirm. This deletes any saved System Restore information on your flash drive, effectively decreasing the size of the System Volume Information folder so its presence won't cause you any pain.
If you'd like to hide the folder from your view, see the Hiding the System Volume Information Folder method now. If you are worried that a virus is lurking in your System Volume Information folder, see this method to learn how to delete the entire folder and dispose of the deleted files.
When the folder is automatically re-added by Windows, it will not contain any bad files. Method 2. You'll not only be hiding the System Volume Information folder from your view, but other important Windows operating system files that shouldn't be modified. This shouldn't affect you in any way unless you're a system administrator who frequently needs access to high-level system files. Click the View menu. It's at the top of the File Explorer window.
Click Options. It's the white window icon with a list inside, and you'll find it in the toolbar at the top of the window. Click the View tab. It's the second tab at the top of the Folder Options window. Select Don't show hidden files, folders, or drives. It's under the "Hidden files and folders" header.
Check the box next to "Hide protected operating system files Recommended. Click OK. Now that you've hidden the appropriate files and folders, you should no longer see the System Volume Information folder when you insert the USB drive into your PC. If you use the USB drive anywhere else, such as in your car or on another PC, the changes will not carry over to that system. This means the System Volume Information folder will still be visible on those systems.
Method 3. You can also open it by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting File Explorer. If you are worried there are rogue files inside your System Volume Information folder, you can use this method to delete the folder from your flash drive. If you haven't already done so, run a virus scan on the computer and remove any viruses that are found.
Double-click your flash drive. You should see it in the center panel, but if you don't, it'll be in the left panel under "This PC" or "Computer.
A context menu will expand. Make sure you're not clicking on a file or folder—just a blank part of the right panel. Click Open command prompt window here. This opens the command prompt window to the correct folder. Enter the commands to delete the folder. Then i took ownership of System Volume Information folder and noticed that the folder has GB worth files in there.
But these are weirdly named file at least to me. Dont know what these files are. These files may be system restore point files but i'm not sure. I'm scared to delete the files in case, this makes the system crash. Has anyone got any idea about what could be the content of the folder and whether it is safe to delete the files.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Regards RK. Join our community to see this answer! Wednesday, September 17, PM. Hi customer, According to the research, if we enable Volume Shadow Copy on the problematic disk and set no limit on the shadow copies, the System Volume Information folder will keep growing unexpectedly.
Wednesday, September 17, AM. David Shen - MSFT Thanks for this information, even now three years after this reply - this information has helped me resolve a long ongoing issue! Thanks B. Thursday, August 18, PM.
Friday, September 30, AM. Saturday, October 1, AM. The quota configuration dialog box for storing system restore points will open. You can reduce the size of the disk for storing shadow copies. Here you can either delete all existing restore points Delete button , or completely disable the creation of restore points by selecting Disable system protection.
This means that file deduplication feature is enabled for this volume. If the Windows Data Deduplication service found identical chunks fragments in files on a volume, it replaces them with a link to the unique chunk, which is saved to the System Volume Information directory. If you move or delete optimized files from a deduplicated volume, old chunks are not deleted immediately. These blocks are removed by a special GarbageCollection job that runs once a week.
This is why space on a deduplication-enabled volume is not immediately reclaimed. After the completion of the tasks, unused chunks in the System Volume Information directory will be deleted, and additional disk space will be freed.
Thanks, this is brilliant. I found a VSS for one disk on another this way. Cleaned it up and voila: space back! This was it. Approx gb. Cleaned it with these litle tricks!!! Now i know where space were wasted due to misconfiguration of the limits of the disk space used by VSS. Life saver of the server!!
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