System Restore - Quick Question

[risk_reversal]

I have disabled/turned off system restore from monitoring any drives/partitions on my pc.

As a consequence, the contents of the System Volume Information folders at root in all of my partitions C:, D:, E: & F: have been deleted (this folder is now empty).

I understand that the System Volume Information folder is where System Restore keeps all the info for restore points and that this folder will still exit whether system restore is on or not.

I have an external HDD which when connected has drive letter G:\. It obviously has a System Volume Information folder but this folder still has some content which appears to be the remnant of an old restore point even though I disabled SR.

The contents of the system Volume Information folder on G: is

L restore{xxxxx-xxx-xxx}
.....L RP68
........L change.log (47KB)

I wanted to give my external HDD a new drive letter N:. I did want to re-enable system restore again to monitor only my C:\ partition as it used to (after moving the external HDD's drive letter).

My question is can I delete the contents (only) of the System Information Folder on G: safely.

Many thanks for any info provided.

Cheers

[risk_reversal]

In case it may be of help to anyone, I deleted the contents of this folder (saved the deleted folder/files just in case) and it has caused no ill effects to my system that I have noted.

[Sylvander]

Better to use a 3rd party imaging program [you may be able to get one for free. e.g. The FREE Seagate Disk Wizard (http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=DiscWizard&vgnextoid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD ) | is a renamed copy of Acronis True Image (http://blogs.bnet.com/businesstips/?p=136)].

Then you could install and run within Windows the FREE version of SyncBack (http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/) to backup all your data files.

Both of the above could be backed up your external HDD [USB 2.0?]
The same programs can restore those backups.
Keep a written log of all [significant] changes to hardware and software.