Recycle bin and/or mounting and/or permissions issue

[Jan]

I've got three partitions mounted, via the management console, as
Program Files\User (originally D:\), My Documents (originally J:\)
and Shared Documents (originally H:\).

Problem: I can't delete folders - not as a restricted user, not as
an admin, not when I'm the folder's owner - never. More precisely,
I can't delete them using the recycle bin. I *can* delete them from
the command line, or with the recycle bin disabled.

I also occasionally get the following dialogue box (in German - back-
translated by me) when emptying the recycling bin: "The [trashcan]
on drive D: is damaged. Do you want to empty it?" - doesn't tell
me what about it is damaged or what to do about it.

I don't *believe* it's a permissions problem; everything's the
way I want it when I "enter" these volumes via their drive letters
rather than the directories they were mounted in (e.g. "J:\" instead
of "C:\Documents and Settings\my_username\My Documents"). One of
them is a FAT32 partition anyway.

So everything seem to be working normally unless I take advantage
of the mountedasdirectories-ness of these three partitions.

Tried some recycle-bin-related things from kellys-korner but they
didn't help.

Any ideas?
~j

 

[Guest]

You can't delete the files if they are in use and active in xp,however you can
delete them in recovery console (boot to xp cd),the cmd would be DEL and
DELETE.Try search at microsoft,type:314058

 

[Jan]

You can't delete the files if they are in use and active in xp,however you can
delete them in recovery console (boot to xp cd),the cmd would be DEL and
DELETE.Try search at microsoft,type:314058

Thanks for the reply.

Getting rid of folders (not files) isn't the problem, though. I
simply want to be able to do so in a non-workaroundish fashion.

As I wrote, I can delete them no problem using the command prompt,
or with the recycle bin disabled, or when I'm accessing the volume
through its drive letter rather than mountpoint.

I thought I could mount a volume in an empty directory and
continue using it normally from there, just like you might mount
some partition as your /home directory in Linux. Did I misunderstand
something?

~j

 

[Jason Marshall]

The Directory is protected.

I am sure if you were to access as the drive not directory, you should be
able to delete.

 

[Jan]

The Directory is protected.

I am sure if you were to access as the drive not directory, you should be
able to delete.

Yes, when I access it "as the drive", I can delete any new folders I
create within it. However, the point of mounting volumes within
folders was to *not* use drive letters for them.

And how is it "protected"? And why? And *should* it be? Permissions
look okay. I even gave "Everyone" full control once. No effect. Besides,
remember I *can* delete stuff just fine when I'm not using the recycle
bin (e.g. when I delete using the RMDIR command instead of Explorer).

That doesn't seem right to me, but ...I don't know.

Also remember: Windows complains the recycle bin on drive D: is
"damaged". (That'd be the partition I mounted in a subfolder of
Program Files.)

So how can I repair that?