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X-Win 32 PC X Server Your PC X server solution--Now with Did you notice that the Recycler and System improved speed and stability. Volume Information folder will appear at the Categories www.starnet.com root of your C: drive once you uncheck “ Hide protected operating system files ” from Folder Options? Apple Mac OS X Automobiles Computer Downloads Torrent Feng Shui Fitness/Body Building Funny General Advertise Here Movies Music News PDA/Pocket PC Travel Windows Vista World Cup

Recent Comments So what is Recycler and System Volume Information all about? Why do I get the error message “ C:\System Volume Information is not accessible. Access is denied ” when I tried to access System Volume Information folder? saidey: Friends yeah!! coooool! hellnoire: Free SMS to the UK Looks nice Raymond. You see, cheap phone cards gHacks.net Hansel: I've installed and created a dotTech Approach Women That Shail Shah: Love it! Thanks Ray! You See MR7: That is odd. My profile.ini Archives My anti-virus detected virus in System Volume Information but was unable to remove Crys1sw0w: the virus. How to manually access System Volume Information folder and delete the And for Linux (edubuntu) where virus? Raymond: What about the Recycler folder? What is the difference between Recycle Bin and Tried a few times but Recycler? Is it safe to delete the Recycler folder? Actually I noticed these 2 folders long time ago but I didn’t care about it because I “assumed” that it belonged to Windows. Anuranga: Today I had a little bit of free time and I decided to check it out. Hi there, I'm going to Windows Vista Review bud432: Considering a move to Vista? Get a Why dont u use Opera Free Vista Pocket Guide Now. www.ITBusinessEdge.com Raul Calle: Gracias, Thank You The System Volume Information folder is a hidden system folder that the System Restore tool uses to store its information and restore points. There is a System Volume Information folder on every partition on your computer. Quite often virus are found in System Volume Information folder because Windows has included the virus into a System Restore Point when it creates one. Problem is anti-virus scanner can’t access the folder. What you need to do is to give permission to the current logged on user full access to System Volume Information folder. Here is how you can gain access to System Volume Information folder if you’re using Windows XP. 1. Go to Control Panel -> Folder Options 2. Go to View tab, UNCHECK “ Use simple file sharing “.

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3. Open My Computer and go to your C:\ drive, right click on System Volume Information and select Properties . 4. Click the Security tab. 5. Click Add and then type the name of the user to whom you want to give access to the folder. Typically, this is the account with which you are logged on. Click OK, and then click OK again. You can now access the System Volume Information folder. Run a full scan with your anti-virus scanner, this time it should be able to remove viruses found in System Volume Information folder. To access System Volume Information in Windows Vista , you have to take ownership. 1. Open My Computer and go to your C:\ drive, right click on System Volume Information and select Properties . 2. Click the Security tab. 3. Click Advanced button where it says For special permissions or advanced settings, click Advanced. 4. Click the Owner tab. 5. Click the Edit button. 6. CHECK “ Replace owner on subcontainers and objects ” and click OK.

Translate You will get a Windows security warning that says “If you have just taken ownership of this objectm, you will need to close and reopen this object’s properties before you can view or change permissions. You should be able to access System Volume information in Vista. Another method to remove the virus in System Volume Information by turning off System Restore. It will remove all your restore points. After turning System Restore off, restart your computer and then re-enable back the System Restore. It will create a new and good restore point without the virus. By default, System Restore is automatically turned on and you can turn it off from: 1. Go to Control Panel -> System 2. Click the System Restore tab.

3. Check “ Turn off System Restore ” and click OK. Next is the Recycler folder. When you delete a file in Windows NT Explorer or My Computer, the file is stored in the Recycle Bin. The file remains in the Recycle Bin until you empty the Recycle Bin or restore the file. The Recycler folder is used only on NTFS partitions. The Recycler folder contains a Recycle Bin for each user that logs on to the computer, sorted by their security identifier (SID). It is safe to delete files inside the Recycler folder. Even if you delete the Recycler folder, it will be re-created once you delete a file.

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If you’re unable to delete files inside the Recycle folder, you can use The Unlocker to unlock files that are being used. In short, it is safe to delete files in Recycler folder but as for System Volume Information, in my opinion, it’s best you leave it as it is. PDF Editing — Try It Free PC User Product of the Year! Edit PDF text, images & pages now. NitroPDF.com/Download

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64 Responses for "About Recycler and System Volume Information Folder in XP and Vista"

Bryan1988 November 8th, 2007 at 11:37 am 1

Nice post… now i know what is all about.. thanks ray keep up the good work!!!

n-GEnX08 November 8th, 2007 at 1:00 pm 2

owkei!!! nice info.. thanks for the post..

Christian November 8th, 2007 at 6:43 pm 3

good article. but how can i access system volume information folder when there are no other users attached to my computer and i’m the only user/administrator? will i see “security tab” in this folder’s property? just wanna know how can i access this folder in other way. thanks.

Sam Ahmed November 8th, 2007 at 7:39 pm 4

Hi everybody,

I would like to add some informations on the system restore tweaks ,a while i ago i started seeing some wierd files with ip 127.0.0.1 in my port explorer log so i started investigating that issue but i ended up with a shock !

if you turned off system restore it doesn’t mean it is really off because some viruses will still inject itself in that as a fake system restore directory “unless” you activate system restore and disable it again to delete all these files and get rid of all these 127.0.0.1 files that says system.

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more than that i started looking all over the net for a way to change the system restore size to be with 0 size limit while it is on but i couldn’t find one way to do that!

so what do you think Raymond ?

Tariq November 9th, 2007 at 11:25 pm 5

Never ever delete system volume information or its contents unless u know whats inside.. Or u will end up deleting all system restore checkpoints..!

You can use system restore if u are infected by a virus or when your system settings have been changes accidentally.!

garage November 11th, 2007 at 6:53 am 6

disable system restore or disable the service and reboot

start->run->cmd dosbox opens

cd\ cacls “c:\System Volume Information” /E /G yourusername:F

now you could delete the file normaly

whoami November 12th, 2007 at 12:05 am 7

nice nice… great post indeed…

Naeem November 29th, 2007 at 7:17 am 8

hi raymond i have a file called tracking in my system folder. so any advice.

Brad January 9th, 2008 at 2:00 am 9

Hello, I tried to uncheck the box in Control Panel -> Folder Options…..View tab, and UNCHECK “Use simple file sharing. But the “Use simple file sharing” option isn’t there on my computer under this path. Now what do I do?

Jack February 17th, 2008 at 6:10 pm 10

i have the same problem as brad, my guess is the virus removed it it also removed the security tab on the Sharing and Security option on the right click menu. any ideas?

Michael March 15th, 2008 at 5:47 pm 11

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It would appear that this is a bigger problem than \”one person screwing something up\”, since I have EXACTLY the same problem as Brad and Jack.

kishan March 18th, 2008 at 10:04 am 12

Thanks for the article Ray ….. The info was helpful…

Jonathan April 2nd, 2008 at 5:47 am 13

Hey bro ,,, I System Volume Information Folder on all my drives !!!! My Comp faced a Trojan attack couple days back… and i had to reinstall OS and formated only My C drive ….. Is it normal to have System Volume Information Folder on all the drives ????…Please advice … Cheers !!!!

MOSES April 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 pm 14

VERY HELPFUL. THANKS

Monique April 25th, 2008 at 3:15 pm 15

I have the EXACT same problem as Brad, Jack AND Michael!! Ahh!! I feel so helpless!!!!!!

Aravind April 29th, 2008 at 2:17 pm 16

Thanks a lot….

I got a solution for all my problems with the PC..

I also understand that using this method we can remove the ntd1er.com, autorun.ini virus… Thanks a lot..

God Bless u…

Ron May 8th, 2008 at 1:13 am 17

And I have the EXACT same problem as Brad, Jack, Michael AND Monique!! Suggestions?

Moshe May 26th, 2008 at 9:33 am 18

for Brad, Jack, Michael Moniqueand Ron – as far as i kwon this option will be shown only if you have a network at your computer e.g. a router . as for Jonathan – you will have one on each drive though the easiest way is gain access to it all is with the cacls command shown early here used a few times just change the driver letter each time you write the command. the should solve the problems.

lucas 19

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June 16th, 2008 at 5:33 am

bom eu tenho u Avast anti viros ,eu fiz um escaneamemto hj e ele emcomtro mais ou menos um 70 viros na pasta System eu movi todo eles para a quarentena .Agora eu quero saber se posso excluir eles,ou se eu excluir ele o pc nao liga mais .o q eu faco.exclui ou deixo eles na quarentena .

Pramod June 18th, 2008 at 4:30 pm 20

I got a solution for many problems with my pc.

Thanks a lot

aljaro June 29th, 2008 at 1:02 am 21

it was a very helpfull more than microsoft

thank you

vasil June 30th, 2008 at 5:28 am 22

thank you

Ben July 6th, 2008 at 5:45 pm 23

Thanks it solved my problem on XP SP2

prasad July 9th, 2008 at 5:20 pm 24

sorry System Volume Information and recycle virus didin\’t remov

ora110 August 20th, 2008 at 11:52 am 25

thanks a lot.

bukun August 24th, 2008 at 5:57 am 26

thanks a lot abt system volume information

Pidge August 30th, 2008 at 1:55 am 27

Thanks very much! Don’t know why they made Vista so complicated.

kulas 28

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September 16th, 2008 at 10:45 am

what is the particular anti virus that can remove or can kill this problematic virus and thank’s ray now i got worth full ideas from u thank’s a lot

Ritu September 26th, 2008 at 7:43 pm 29

I tried the option Ray gave and it seems to have worked for the C but on the D drive the folder is still not accessible.

Madhan September 29th, 2008 at 2:17 pm 30

Thanks GUys

the great britain October 31st, 2008 at 6:25 pm 31

thank you very much raymond. you always have a good advice for someone who is lost.

Tun Linn November 8th, 2008 at 1:53 am 32

i also have the same problems. my norton also can not detect the virus. i got this virus thru the phone. coz i wanted to upload some songs into my phone. from then onwards, i could not play Windows Media Player , also got this “Thumbs.db” file in every folders. and “System Volume Information” and “RECYCLER” in my D drive too. anyone??? help me pls??? thx

Tun Linn November 8th, 2008 at 2:05 am 33

addittion!!! all my files right. now having like…. .jpg , .mp3 , .mpg. ya.

trid November 10th, 2008 at 11:38 am 34

hello, i followed your instructions on accessing volume information in windows vista but it did not work. please help!

amir November 29th, 2008 at 8:57 pm 35

Excellent just as usual!

John December 15th, 2008 at 1:37 am 36

As far as I know the “uncheck simple file sharing” method only works on XP Pro, not Home. XP Home uses simple file sharing and it cannot be deactivated. Sometimes people who use XP Pro explain how to do something without realizing that it doesn’t apply to Home.

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Bob Hoekstra December 16th, 2008 at 4:13 pm 37

Thanks – AVG told me about suspicious files in here and it has taken me ages to figure out how to delete them . Now I know the answer!

Sonny December 21st, 2008 at 6:37 am 38

Hola a todos yo tenia el mismisimo problema, ese de que no podia entrar al system volume information, pero siguiendo los pasos ahora si pude entrar, cuando entre en la carpeta aparecieron dos archivitos inusuales: uno que era tracking (un documento de texto) y otro que era mount……y no me acuerdo que mas porque ya lo elimine, y cuando pense que me habia desecho del virus, las carpetas recycler seguian apareciendo, y mi pen drive seguia infectandose, mi pregunta es como puedo encontrar el programa que crea esas malditas carpetas y en donde esta instalado, porque me parece que es igual que el cftmon32.exe que estaba instalado en c:/windows, y que tambien ya lo elimine, agradeceria que me ayudaran por favor………..Bye Saludos

ray December 21st, 2008 at 6:30 pm 39

THnx a lot… it worked!!! thanx… have a happy christmas! : )

Hozy December 27th, 2008 at 3:43 am 40

ا ا ا ااءات ا و ا آن او ر أ ات ود اد اوز ا آ ا ار System Restore آ ا ار 1980 ا ا ام اول و اام د آ اد از ” اب ب ” ة اى ر ح ااءا اوس اول ا از ااً xp ام ا ادة و اوز أر اة .. آ دآ

neil john December 28th, 2008 at 6:18 pm 41

nice..but i would like to ask how to access my files if the virus was removed by AVG? coz i cant access anymore the files in both my external drive and flash drive..iva already tried ’showing hidden files and folders’ yet i cant access them..please help..

Kamalakar Patil January 4th, 2009 at 5:58 pm 42

thanks a lot dude!!!

for this problem i had format my system 3 times, but every time these folder were came after 3 to 4 days. now i have got a perfect solution.

Thank you. Kamalakar (India)

Razor a-X January 25th, 2009 at 8:41 pm 43

Thanks Mr Raymond! I\’ve managed to delete the RECYCLER folder but the System Volume Information folder keeps appearing. But thanks anyway!

I\’ve linked this page in my blog. I hope that it\’s fine with you.

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Thanks a lot!

younes khassil February 11th, 2009 at 10:32 pm 44

merci raymond pour explication tu es vrement un grand anti verus héhé merci

ansar February 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pm 45

hi , i am having xp sp2 os and these two folders are vexing me up i dont know are these folders belong to virus or not can any one help me.And i have followed the above procedure but i am not able to delete them …

shiva March 1st, 2009 at 10:24 am 46

i am not able to find the Security tab in my properties of “system volume information” can any one out ther help me up…..

Merlin_Magii March 6th, 2009 at 6:02 am 47

Must have missed this posting – thanks Raymond.

shaista March 11th, 2009 at 12:50 pm 48

i dvd writer is not writing dvd and cd ,it only reads it. Is it due to a virus.what should i do.

ranjit March 23rd, 2009 at 11:32 am 49

good work…………………….

Ionutz March 26th, 2009 at 2:09 am 50

Thaaaaaaaaanks… No More Trojans On My Computeeer…

suklal kale March 29th, 2009 at 1:49 am 51

thnx………….

great information, It helps a lot…………..

muzt April 8th, 2009 at 9:07 am 52

is it safe to disable the system volume info?

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plz anybody there reply ,..,.,hehehe \m/

muzt April 8th, 2009 at 9:19 am 53

just go to any folder and then above option, click the tools then scroll down to folder option, there you’ll find view tab then to the last button unchecked it.,., DONE..

by the way Raymond What should i do with the recycler folder,, please i need more info…(Thahkz!!)

jay April 16th, 2009 at 10:17 pm 54

thanks for the information virut is nasty virus that attaches it self to all .exe files and re appears from system restore points if not cleaned out

Dharmendra May 9th, 2009 at 1:30 pm 55

yaha sub kar ke dekha liya par yaha folder delet nahi hota hai . koi aur rasta hai isko virus ko delet karana ka???

IMRAN May 23rd, 2009 at 8:06 pm 56

hi,,, when i saw recycler in my computer every drive then i afraid that my computer is also infected with virus but thanks for suggesting me ……..IMRAN

sneha June 26th, 2009 at 8:27 pm 57

hey shiva your problem was not finding the security tab right??? if its not late i have a solution 4 u.. go to my computers-tools-folder options-click on the view tab-and uncheck the box for “use simple file sharing (Recommended)” now u willl get the security tab u wanted

mhel July 9th, 2009 at 1:25 pm 58

hello, my computer recently got infected with the autorun, recycler and system volume information viruses.. i managed to delete the recycler virus but it keeps coming back.. also when i try to delete the autorun and sys volume information viruses.. these messages appear respectively. “cannot del. folder was created by flash disinfector. cannot find the specified file”

“Access denied make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that file is currently not in use”

what should i do?

Jas July 14th, 2009 at 6:39 pm 59

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wish your method did work, but it didnt. bec it doesnt eliminate the problem (virus). and Win XP Home and Pro are fundamentally different , what you are teaching is only good for the Pro ver.

julz October 3rd, 2009 at 8:10 pm 60

That’s the good thing virus has come these day, it can hides itself to the deepest. i followed all the instructions, i have xp pro sp2 or sp3, still i can’t access System Volume Information and when you notice on “type” tab of windows explorer , system volume information is a folder. sometimes, when i double clicking this folder, it creates a recycler folder.. Any idea what’s going on?

jayanth October 10th, 2009 at 3:07 pm 61

Superb post, thank a lot

mohit October 17th, 2009 at 2:30 am 62

they r appearing again n agin what should i do? plz help me but anyway thanx a lot sir

ASF November 29th, 2009 at 8:53 pm 63

Thanks a lot……

sb_wasim December 7th, 2009 at 10:34 pm 64

Hi….., well there is a solution of all types of viruses,if you knows the name of file which is still infected. ubuntu is the operating system,which you have to install in your system in any other device except your window’s drive.and start that window.ubuntu or linux cannot support executable files.so you can easily delete all type of infected files.just. . . . . start–>ubuntu–>\open drive–>right click on file….. and delete that file. easy way 2 save system from viruses…. G@@D BYE…..