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I'm coming from:

How to delete “System Volume Information” folder from external drives?

but unlikely that answer couldn't solve my problem. I've a copy of an old "system volume information" in my additional drive (not the WINDOWS HDD).

I tried to remove it with cmd as administrador, rmdir, doing takeown and other solutions but I couldn't. The content/names of the files are too long so it gives an error (Yes, I tried with short names but they also can't work)

Any suggestion to avoid this issue without downloading/using a big distribution of linux?

UPDATE 1:

This is how it looks after /rd command

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By the way, "El nombre del archivo es demasiado largo" means "The filename is too long"

UPDATE 2:

System Restore disabled from the HDD with the issue enter image description here

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Simply download a small Linux distro like Damn Small Linux or ttylinux, create a LiveUSB using UNetbootin, boot using the same and get rid of the folder.

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You could also try one of the answers mentioned in Tool for deleting directories with path/names too long for normal delete.

In particular, I had success with the 7-Zip file manager multiple times already. If you managed to clear all the protective permission settings on that folder, 7-Zip should work seamlessly.

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