I've recently come to find that this file located below

C:\System Volume Information\

is nearly 9GB and is increased by Windows, I'm taking a guess and saying its my recovery folder, so if I ever do bother recovering its all there (I usually just format and get it over with... >.>). Ummm, firstly, can anyone tell me exactly what it is and secondly can you tell me if it's ok to remove it from my hard-drive as 10GB that appears to be doing nothing on my poor 80GB hard-drive, this space is very valuable.

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It should be a folder not a file.
It should also be hidden.

It's the folder which stores system restore information for your restore points etc., it has other functions aswell

I wouldnt delete anything in there

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It's in my root directory.

Heres a picture.

hxttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/TidusX181/properties.jpg

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its taking less space on disk? thats a new one...

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“There are some people in this world who don’t love their fellow man, and I HATE people like that!”

You should have had to change a few things(permission/file ownership etc.) to be even allowed open the folder....did you?? (doesnt really matter...just wondering. It would be wierd if u didnt...)

It's a system operating folder...
as i already said.....i'd leave it alone.

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Ermmm... yus I did add my username to the permissions >.>

BUT only to see why my space has gone to one damn file!

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There are people here who know way more than me. You can always wait for one of them

or get another Hard drive

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Ok, I done some homework and it is what I thought it was. It's a stupid Restore Point Folder! > <

System Restore and everytime you install uninstall or whatever it logs that and creates a restore point. But apparently I am able to disable is

So... now all I have to do is some snooping around to find it, I seem to remember seeing the option to turn it off before.

If you are interested in a little information about it then heres a linky ^^;

hxttp://www.theeldergeek.com/system_volume_information_folder1.htm

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Getting another Hard-drive isn't an option for me... if it were I would have bought a 200GB long before now. >.>

Reason is... I own one of these crappy things.

hxttp://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/biostar_ideq_200n_review/images/01.jpg

Yes... I can actually take the floppy drive out (which I never use). I tried that... the IDE cable supplied was slightly to short and the drives are at two angle (annoying). I went out and bought a 90cm cable, but haven't used it yet (I think it's gona cause problems with the limited space I have though. Also... I kinda... miss-placed the panel that sits in place of the floppy drive, so I don't wanna get another HDD til I get a new PC ^^;

Edit: PS. I also found how to shrink and turn off the amount it uses. If I wanted I could probs delete it without any problems. But I think that with it using only 1.5GB on my HDD is ok

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To turn off System restore, (or lower the disk-space it uses):

-Go to your My computer properties (right-click)
-Go to the sustem-restore tab, and there you can either turn it off entirely for the drive, or set a smaller amount of diskspace for it, through the "settings" button.

Hope this helps. Kinda late, you probably already found it

EDIT: whoops, you already did. Well, this is for the other folks who stumble on this problem

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Hehe, yus my suspisions were correct, I found it indeed as you already know.... now . I just turned it off. I hate system restore it's never actually worked for me... I suppose I should allocate a little space for it, maybe 200MB, I think I can stop if from monitoring my hard-drive so it doesn't track everything I install or uninstall only what I put in. ^^;

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