How to remove $RECYCLE.BIN & System Volume Information from Each partition

Anonymous
2013-10-12T13:02:59+00:00

My windows 8.1 Pro (final release) infected with $RECYCLE.BIN & System Volume Information virus/malware in each partition.I have tried with windows Defender and Microsoft safety scannerto remove but windows Defender and Microsoft safety scanner not detect them.If i try to delete,it again appears.

Advice me how to remove " $RECYCLE.BIN & System Volume Information from each partition plea

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Anonymous
2013-10-12T13:13:08+00:00

My windows 8.1 Pro (final release) infected with $RECYCLE.BIN & System Volume Information virus/malware in each partition.I have tried with windows Defender and Microsoft safety scannerto remove but windows Defender and Microsoft safety scanner not detect them.If i try to delete,it again appears.

Advice me how to remove " $RECYCLE.BIN & System Volume Information from each partition plea

Typically $RECYCLE.BIN is for recycle bin allocation form your hard disk partition. and  System Volume Information bears the useful info regarding your volume.

These things are shown because hide protected system files tick is removed

Cant say it a virus effect or not..

If you feel like infected, much better to take the assistance of antivirus software

Download hitman pro 3.7**(shareware and can be activated for 30 days free)**and have a full system scan.. http://www.surfright.nl/en 

And/or

use malwarebyte have a full system scan http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

After verifying , you can just make them invisible by doing this... 

Note:- Optional/additional info -----(You DON'T have to run below to fix the problem )

Any folder and its content can be made shown as a recycle bin using a desktop.ini

Normally within this desktop.ini u can see. 

[.ShellClassInfo]

CLSID={645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-8964

open a command prompt run as administrator

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc947813%28v=ws.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

change the the folder attrattributesre desktop.ini is kept using

attrib +a +s +h +r "folder" \* /d /s

you will see a recyclear bin folder

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-02T18:42:20+00:00

    There is nothing to help you with. If the flash drive is formatted to NTFS, Windows puts "System Volume Information" to good use. Leave this folder alone. If you really cannot take it, and nothing that you do requires that the flash drive be formatted to NTFS, and it is 32GB or fewer in size, you can back up the data on it and format it to FAT32.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-06-03T01:05:22+00:00

    When i try to delete them, Recyclebin gets deleted but not system volume information. Please help....

    Other than your own files folders, only folder that can be inside flash drive is the  "System Volume Information" folder...http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/11/20/55764.aspx

    keep it as it is

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-07-25T17:37:04+00:00

    thank you

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-08-19T14:48:52+00:00

    I checked what u had explained. Even though my hide protected system filesbox is marked with tick mark system volume information folder is displaying and is not getting deleted.can u tell me about this .this was seen in my pendrive.

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