Hello Group On Friday, November 5, 2004, 6:06:15 AM, z5worg wrote:
>>> The WinXP in Windows Explorer is already set to "Show hidden files >>> and folders" and "Hide protected operating system files" is also >>> unchecked. But I still cannot open the "System Volume Information" >>> folder. Have you open that folder and copied any files from that >>> folder? If not, would you try and let me know? I am simply trying >>> to use TC to make a full backup copy of my C: drive (a new >>> installation of WinXP); so that if I need to reinstall a clean copy >>> of WinXP, I can simply do a copy from this backup and it would be >>> mostly all configured. [snipped] zzc> Thanks for the info. Does that mean that I can have a clean zzc> "reinstall" of WinXP by copying back from the backup copy described zzc> above -- without the "System Volume Informaiton" files? So does the OS zzc> create/configure a new "System Volume Informaiton" ONLY IF I reinstall zzc> from the WinXP installation CD? [snipped] I doubt that you can make a backup that you can just copy back in the way you suggest and expect it to work. If nothing else the registry changes all the time and, even if you can copy it (it is always open or in use) it won't be up to date because it will be a snapshot. You'll also need an OS already installed to run TC. The best thing to achieve what you want would be Norton Ghost or Symantec Drive Image. With those tools you take a complete sector by sector copy of the drive and the tool will copy it back sector by sector, it's a good way of keeping a clean install to hand. You need to 'activate' XP before you do this or re-instating it after the days of grace expire will leave you looking at a screen which basically says 'no entry' until you have activated by telephone. On the subject of the dreaded System Volume Information directory - if you have more than one logical drive and want to do a complete clean re-install from CD/DVD then turn off system recovery on all drives before you do the re-install - XP will then empty those folders. If you don't do this then SysVolInfo on all drives apart from C: will be full of useless junk and, as you have discovered, you can't get in the directory to empty it! I realised this part way through an install once, the drives were FAT32 so I could see them after booting from my rescue CD and it took 90 minutes with DelTree to clean them out, I've never done it since :-) -- Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK :Jeff_Gaines: ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
