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System Volume Information has 336 Files filled with 180GB of nulls
I just discovered that my System Volume Information folder on my C:\ (system) drive has 336 files that have appeared over the past several years, and they're totally filled with nulls (Hex 00), to the tune of about 180 GB. I've managed to gain enough access (invoked super user, changed some permissions) to be able to look into them and ascertain the nulls, but have not been able to manually delete them. I haven't found out how they're being created, but I'm now running spacesniffer with a filter that should pop up a flag as soon as another is generated. I hope another shows up soon, as I might be able to relate it to something I'm doing at the time.
I'm doing as much of the experimenting as I can on a mounted backup image. It seems to behave pretty much the same as the real system drive.
Since 180 GB is a lot of space, I'd like to get rid of these files. System Protection is turned off, and I've used the 'Delete' button, but that only deleted the valid restore points. The 180 GB of nothing remains.
Any suggestions on getting this mess cleaned up would be seriously appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike