Windows 7: Recycle Bin is corrupted

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Satch

1985 posts

Uber Geek

#336082 29-May-2010 14:33

freitasm:
Satch: Now back to the disabling of my recycle bin, after I disable it then what do I need to do? What is the best way to 'clean it up"? This again is an honest question and is not intended to be a smart remark.

Uncheck that option. Restart the computer. Login. Restart the computer again, this time in Safe Mode. Try to empty the recycle bin, see if you can delete from command line, etc. Then restart the computer again and check that option. Restart it...

So delete the folder called $recycler, or using the rd command I referred to in the original post?

Satch

1985 posts

Uber Geek

#336089 29-May-2010 15:05

Ok, have tried everything suggested here. I guess that only time will now tell if it has worked or not.

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.

Satch

1985 posts

Uber Geek

#336241 30-May-2010 11:39

Unfortunately none of the suggestions here have helped :(

Any further ideas people?

simplestuff

84 posts

Master Geek

#336248 30-May-2010 12:17

There is a hidden recycle bin folder for every drive.

You can delete the corrupted one by typing the following into an elevated command prompt

rd /s /q D:\$Recycle.bin

Where D is the letter of the drive you want to delete it from

Found this by googling

Satch

1985 posts

Uber Geek

#336252 30-May-2010 12:41

simplestuff: There is a hidden recycle bin folder for every drive.

You can delete the corrupted one by typing the following into an elevated command prompt

rd /s /q D:\$Recycle.bin

Where D is the letter of the drive you want to delete it from

Found this by googling

And you'll also see that I mentioned in my original post that the above command did not work. I also found it by googling long before I asked for help here.

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