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How can one erase the System Volume Folder? I tryed booting with the Wxp

MS-DOS startup disk but I can not access partition D!

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"b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> How can one erase the System Volume Folder? I tryed booting with the Wxp

> MS-DOS startup disk but I can not access partition D!

 

you cannot delete it

you do not want to delete that folder

and you certainly cannot access an NTFS partition with a dos boot floppy

 

 

if you want though...you can turn off system restore

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How to add more power to Recovery Console by using Group Policy in

Windows XP Professional

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310497/

 

For XP Home do the registry edit. Why do you want to delete the System

Volume Folder?

 

John

 

b11_ wrote:

> How can one erase the System Volume Folder? I tryed booting with the Wxp

> MS-DOS startup disk but I can not access partition D!

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Because I can not boot the partition. The partition will boot if the folder

is erased. So how does one use the registry editor to erase that folder?

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"John John" wrote:

> How to add more power to Recovery Console by using Group Policy in

> Windows XP Professional

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310497/

>

> For XP Home do the registry edit. Why do you want to delete the System

> Volume Folder?

>

> John

>

> b11_ wrote:

>

> > How can one erase the System Volume Folder? I tryed booting with the Wxp

> > MS-DOS startup disk but I can not access partition D!

>

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b11_ wrote:

> Because I can not boot the partition. The partition will boot if the folder

> is erased. So how does one use the registry editor to erase that folder?

 

 

You can't. The registry editor is used to edit the registry, not

perform file system maintenance.

 

 

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But John John suggested the registry editor!

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"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

> b11_ wrote:

> > Because I can not boot the partition. The partition will boot if the folder

> > is erased. So how does one use the registry editor to erase that folder?

>

>

> You can't. The registry editor is used to edit the registry, not

> perform file system maintenance.

>

>

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> Bruce Chambers

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Guest Bruce Chambers
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b11_ wrote:

> But John John suggested the registry editor!

> ___________________________________________

>

 

 

To delete folders from the hard drive? I can't imagine where he'd have

gotten such an idea.

 

 

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Guest John John
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You can't use the registry editor to erase/delete files or folders! Did

you read the article?

 

In your first post you stated that you "tryed booting with the Wxp

MS-DOS startup disk but I can not access partition D!" I assumed,

(maybe or probably incorrectly), that you booted to the Recovery Console

and that you were trying to delete folders from there. If you are

really booting with an MS-DOS disk it *is not* a Windows XP disk and if

the drives are NTFS MS-DOS cannot access them. If you are booting with

the Windows XP setup diskettes or with the XP cd then you are not using

MS-DOS, you might be confusing the Recovery Console for DOS.

 

The default security settings for the Recovery Console limits access to

files and folders, from the Recovery Console you can access these folders:

 

- The root folder of any drive

- The %SystemRoot% folder and the subfolders of the Windows installation

you are currently logged on to (in other words, the Windows folder and

its subfolders)

- The Cmdcons folder

- Removable media drives such as CD-ROM drives

 

All other files and folders are off limit while in the Recovery Console,

unless you give it more power by doing what it says in the article I

pointed you to. If the Windows installation can't boot then you cannot

change the security restrictions currently in place. You will have to

use other methods to delete the folder.

 

John

 

b11_ wrote:

> Because I can not boot the partition. The partition will boot if the folder

> is erased. So how does one use the registry editor to erase that folder?

> _____________________________________________________________

>

> "John John" wrote:

>

>

>>How to add more power to Recovery Console by using Group Policy in

>>Windows XP Professional

>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310497/

>>

>>For XP Home do the registry edit. Why do you want to delete the System

>>Volume Folder?

>>

>>John

>>

>>b11_ wrote:

>>

>>

>>>How can one erase the System Volume Folder? I tryed booting with the Wxp

>>>MS-DOS startup disk but I can not access partition D!

>>


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