system volume info issue

well, i somehow lost all my restore points (defraggler is my main suspect), but i managed to locate one with recuva.

i tried to restore it to C:/system volume information (where it came from), but it ended up making a new folder C:/system volume information/system volume information.

windows can't detect it in there, and i can't delete the folder no matter what i do.

is there any way i can

a. move the file out and/or

b. delete the newly-created folder

help would be appreciated, since this is really annoying me. i'm not getting a permission error, it just won't do anything.

oh, and i'm using vista.

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never ever restore to the same drive on which you are recovering from. your attempt mayu have over writen something. restore to a flash drive then copy it to the sysinfo folder. . . if vista with let you

at this point i don't really care about the file, i just want it gone from in there.

there isn't a folder called 'system volume information' in 'system volume information' in there normally, right? it said the creation date was today.

Nope, and honestly if it's not giving you a uac prompt when you try to delete it I'm not sure what else can be done about it being there. You could try to run cmd-prompt as admin and see if you can navigate to that folder and delete it.

alrighty, i'll try that. (i have UAC disabled, so i wouldn't get that anyways)

(i have UAC disabled, so i wouldn't get that anyways

right here could well be the reason you can't do it.