As of early yesterday, all but 1 of the internal and external drives on my system were NTFS, and, in windoze explorer, the Sysystem Volume Information critter was listed for each NTFS drive.

The Folder Options are set to show hidden and protected files, so all of this is as expected.

Late yesterday, I added another USB drive. I used Disk Management to reformat as NTFS. Ran SEagate's tools to check drive, no problems found.

Perfect Disk lists the drive as NTFS.
Recycler, not Recycled, is listed for the drive.

Ran a Ghost 10 backup of the hard drives and saved in a Ghost directory on the new UB drive.

Ran scandisk, no problems reported.
Ran chkdsk /f, no problems reported.

Why is System Volume Information not listed?
Have I encountered a known Win 2000 bug?