I turned off system restore on my two extended partitions but kept it on my System partition but I still can't delete the SVI folders on my extended partitions, one of which is 1GB in size, any ideas? TIA. Bob Mitchell. "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." - Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

SVI will remain to be locked until you disable SR altogether. As an FYI, the main purpose of SR is to monitor only the system partition or drive. Also, be aware that SR is not a backup utility. i_XpUser

Thanks, I actually use Ghost 9.0 and write my system partition to a DVD so I don't really need SR, I'll turn it off and try deleting the SVI folders tonight. Thank You. Bob Mitchell. "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." - Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

Need more info. You cant delete because when you try you get an error saying another program is using it? If so, try booting to safe mode and deleting it. You can also use a program called dellater (google it)but i think its strictly for deleting (files) during preboot not (folders). When all eles fails you can move your files to a different partition or cd/dvd and then format the partition with the troublesome folder.

Actually System Volume Information folder is locked all the time. Go to the following Link to gain access to this folder.

Thanks again, Custom Built: I get "Access Denied" even though I am the Administrator. terii: Thanks for that link, I should really have thought of that myself! Oh well, I'll have another coffee to wake myself up! Thanks everyone. Bob Mitchell. "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." - Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

Once you turn off SR the folder will be emptied. The empty folder will contain zero bytes. Bryan