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.
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
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.