{"id":41753,"date":"2003-11-20T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/11\/20\/whats-the-deal-with-the-system-volume-information-folder\/"},"modified":"2003-11-20T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T16:24:00","slug":"whats-the-deal-with-the-system-volume-information-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031120-00\/?p=41753","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s the deal with the System Volume Information folder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the root of every drive is a folder called &#8220;System Volume Information&#8221;.  If your drive is NTFS, the permissions on the folder are set so not even administrators can get in there. What&#8217;s the big secret? <\/p>\n<p> The folder contains information that casual interference could cause problems with proper system functioning.  Here are some of the things kept in that folder. (This list is not comprehensive.) <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>System Restore points.  You can disable System Restore from     the &#8220;System&#8221; control panel. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/prodtechnol\/winxppro\/reskit\/prkc_fil_ngyp.asp\">     Distributed Link Tracking Service<\/a> databases for repairing     your shortcuts and linked documents. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/en-us\/dnanchor\/html\/indexserv.asp\">     Content Indexing Service<\/a> databases for fast file searches.     This is also the source of the <code>cidaemon.exe<\/code> process:     That is the content indexer itself, busy scanning your files and     building its database so you can search for them quickly.     (If you created a lot of data in a short time, the content indexer     service gets all excited trying to index it.) <\/li>\n<li>Information used by the     <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/msdnmag\/issues\/01\/12\/XPKernel\/default.aspx\">     Volume Snapshot Service<\/a> (also known as &#8220;Volume Shadow Copy&#8221;)     so you can back up files on a live system. <\/li>\n<li>Longhorn systems keep WinFS databases here. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the root of every drive is a folder called &#8220;System Volume Information&#8221;. If your drive is NTFS, the permissions on the folder are set so not even administrators can get in there. What&#8217;s the big secret? The folder contains information that casual interference could cause problems with proper system functioning. Here are some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-41753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In the root of every drive is a folder called &#8220;System Volume Information&#8221;. If your drive is NTFS, the permissions on the folder are set so not even administrators can get in there. What&#8217;s the big secret? The folder contains information that casual interference could cause problems with proper system functioning. Here are some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}