How can I remove System Volume Information on a USB drive


  1. artinusa
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    Windows 7 64 bit
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    How can I remove System Volume Information on a USB drive


    I was wondering if anyone can help me please .. how one removes SVI from a non-fixed USB disk? I have system restore switched off on this drive..shows zero on scale but the disk has 623mb of SVI information possibly from a previous restore point setting..not sure where it came from Not sure if indexing is on this drive Can I remove this information... and how? TIA
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  3. karlsnooks
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    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
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    If nothing else is on the stick, the quick, easy and painless way is to do a quick format.

    Remember win 7 is going to reserve some space for file info.
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