System Volume Information Access Denied and filling up

[Guest Robert]

This is a Windows 2003 SP2 Server with a C and D drive. The D drive is the

problem. I am running out of disk space and I am sure that it is the System

Volume Information folder. I cannot get in to it though. I get an access

denied error when trying to access it. Things I've done so far; disabled

shadow copy, check that the indexing service was stopped (it was disabled),

restarted the server, restarted Volume Shadow Copy service, Restarted the VSS

SQL Server write, restarted Backup Exec, applied all Microsoft patches.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: System Volume Information Access Denied and filling up

 

 

"Robert" <Robert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:0BEFBC1C-6438-439E-89F3-D4EF02091941@microsoft.com...

> This is a Windows 2003 SP2 Server with a C and D drive. The D drive is

> the

> problem. I am running out of disk space and I am sure that it is the

> System

> Volume Information folder. I cannot get in to it though. I get an access

> denied error when trying to access it. Things I've done so far; disabled

> shadow copy, check that the indexing service was stopped (it was

> disabled),

> restarted the server, restarted Volume Shadow Copy service, Restarted the

> VSS

> SQL Server write, restarted Backup Exec, applied all Microsoft patches.

 

Seize ownership of this folder, then give full access rights to the

System account and to your own account.

[Guest lukesh]

RE: System Volume Information Access Denied and filling up

 

1. Right-Click the volume drive letter where the large System Volume

Information

folder is located.

 

2. From the shortcut menu, click "Shadow Copies".

 

3. You will likely need to click Enable.

 

4. Set the Maximum size: field to "Use Limit:" and insert something like

100MB and

 

click Ok.

 

5. Click Disable to disable Shadow Copies on the volume. You will be warned

about

 

"deleting existing shadow copies, etc.", Click Yes.

 

6. Click Ok to close out of the properties dialog for the volume.

 

Lukesh

 

"Robert" wrote:

> This is a Windows 2003 SP2 Server with a C and D drive. The D drive is the

> problem. I am running out of disk space and I am sure that it is the System

> Volume Information folder. I cannot get in to it though. I get an access

> denied error when trying to access it. Things I've done so far; disabled

> shadow copy, check that the indexing service was stopped (it was disabled),

> restarted the server, restarted Volume Shadow Copy service, Restarted the VSS

> SQL Server write, restarted Backup Exec, applied all Microsoft patches.