Empty The Recycle Bin Of An External Drive?
Apr 27, 2012How do I empty the recycle bin of an external drive?
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External Hard Drives Wake Up When Empty Recycle Bin
Feb 19, 2012I currently have 4 external hard drives connected to my computer. I have each of them set to sleep after an hour of inactivity. However, if I am using the computer, they stay asleep, until I delete something; anything. Any time I send something to the recycle bin, all four of my external hard drives wake up.
I would like for this not to happen. I already went to the Recycle Bin Properties and set each external hard drive to "Don't move files to the recycle bin. Remove files immediately when deleted" thinking that it would quit checking them for deleted files.
how to prevent these external hard drives from turning on when I delete files off of my computer. And just to be clear, I am NOT deleting files that are on the externals, they are files that are on the Computer.
$recycle.bin Folder On External Hard Drive?
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edit to add....theres also a folder called RECYCLER which contains 3.3GB...can this be emptied too?
External Drive Shows 465gb Is Used When It Is Empty
Jun 5, 2011I have just bought a new computer and am running win 7.The C drive is fine but my external drive Maxtor 500gb connected by USB, is showing 465gb as used space when this is empty.In Disk management th drive is shown as 16gb, but in defrag screen the full 500gb are shown,what is using the 464gb that is empty?My previous computer running XP was showing the external drive correctly!
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OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
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OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
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Damaged Hard Drive Clusters - Windows Icons Appear But Empty When Clicked
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