I think that a thumb drive would be considered the same as an external drive? All those little programs on the thumb drives are a real pain, such as when you plug them in they change your drive letters and so forth. They also bring up their own wants and the only way I learned to get rid of them all was to reformat the drive in the beginning and it shold remove all that and give you a clear and clean drive. But this is my way of dealing with it on a thumb drive, please inquire further with others. MMM On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:12:58 -0400 lmp19@xxxxxxxx writes: > Hi to all, > My laptop is running Windows XP pro and JAWS 12. I recently > noticed > several folders on two of my external hard drives. Those folders > are > system volume information and recycled. I cannot remove these > folders in > any way. They are using up about 20GB of storage space on both > external > drives which have these folders on them. > I've googled this issue and have tried the recommended solutions > which > have not resolved this issue for me. > Does anyone have a method of removing the system volume information > folders from external hard drives? > Any help is much appreciated. > Best wishes, > Lou > ____________________________________________________________ > Groupon.com Official Site > 1 huge daily deal on the best stuff to do in your city. Try it > today! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4e040f3d199dc24aabst06vuc > > > All The Best To You, Thank You, From Michael