Folder empty but 13 GB Used

[Jeff Salladay]

The recycled folder on my 2nd hard drive shows 13 GB used but no files are
visible (I've already shown hidden files).

More detail - I did a Ghost of my primary hard drive into an image on the
2nd hard drive - using Norton Ghost 2002. This has worked before but this
time the image appeared in my recycle folder (not where I told it to go).
The Norton boot floppy (PC-DOS) can see the image files in the recycled
folder but Win XP cannot see them - the folder is empty. As I mentioned
above, the properties of the recycled folder show 13 GB used though.

I would like to free up the space and run Ghost again with an updated boot
disk. Any ideas on how to recover the space first though?

Thanks

 

[David Candy]

Type CMD in Start Run

Type

rd recycled /s (or recycler depoending on disk format)
This destroys the recycle bin
Delete any file.
This repaires the recycle bin.

Repeat for each drive.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

The recycle bin hold all deleted files from each XP user. Whenever you
empty it out, you only clear out hte files that the "current logged-in user"
had deleted. The other users deleted files are still there.

To clear out all deleted files: Restart in "Safe Mode" and log in as
"Administrator". Then you should have the option to clear out "all user"
deleted files.

Y.