May 2, 2013 Posted by newlife007

Disappearing Space on Windows 2008 R2 Caused by System Volume Information and Shadow Copies

Recently ran into an issue where a 400 GB drive was showing low space but looking at the files found that only 20 GB was being consumed. Upon checking on the drive turned on show hidden on the server in a folder called System Volume Information. The System Volume Information folder is a hidden system folder that the System Restore tool (XP, Vista/7/8) uses to store its information and restore points, it... read more