Unable to delete Volume Shadow Copies from volume on HyperV host

Question

Hi,

I have a volume (H:) on a HyperV host which has 450Gb of Volume Shadow Copies on it, according to Treesize, inside 'System Volume Information'.

I have given my user permission to access the folder and have also disabled 'show system files' in explorer options.

However, when I try and delete the shadow copies (vssadmin delete shadows /for=h: /oldest), I get the following message:

"No Items found that satisfy the query"

Even though there are files in H:\System Volume Information

Answer 1

Hi @Andy Duffield ,

does this help:

Huge VSS leftover
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2257019-huge-vss-leftover

This is also an intersting approach:

From:
How can I delete corrupted Shadow Copy Files?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/432568-how-can-i-delete-corrupted-shadow-copy-files

Start an elevated commandline window
Type in wmic and press enter
wmic:root\cli is shown
Type in shadowcopy which will list the current shadow copies
Type in shadowcopy delete and confirm to delete the copies one after the other
To leave the WMI commandline type exit

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Stoyan Chalakov