System Volume Information? What Is It? And What Is It For?

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System Volume Information? What Is It? And What Is It For?

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Okay. Microsoft I have a question. What is a/is System Volume Information? Because whenever I put my flash-drive or my micro sd adapter and sd card into my windows 8.1 something called "System Volume Information" is always getting added on. The problem is I want to put everything on my sd and flash-drive but with that on there I can't do it. And I am unable to delete it. Why?

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Answer 1

Sumit 43,546 Volunteer Moderator

Hi,

Everything about System Volume Information is explained here:

https://www.howtogeek.com/282214/what-is-the-sy...

I suggest you to simply hide System folders from the folder options.

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Answer 2

Hi MincroSoft Is DoingIts Best,

System Volume Informstion certianely should not be on your removable drives . . .

Click your Start Button, type cmd, then right click Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator'

If your removable media is drive D for example

Run this command and hit Enter to navigate to that drive:

D:

Then run this command and hit Enter to remove the System Volume information folder from that drive:

rmdir "system volume information" /s /q

Answer 3

Vijay A. Verma 104.8K Volunteer Moderator

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.

Source - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/309531...

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