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Moving a recyclebin file to a new drive
Name: Tibor Date: February 5, 2002 at 20:38:41 Pacific
Comment:
I have two disk drives C and E, and they both have recyclebin files on them. I have cleaned everything off of my E drive except for the recyclebin file. How do I get rid of this file so I can use the drive as a backup drive? I can't find any instruction on how to delete and redefine the Recyclebin folders. I am on Windows 95.
Name: Mark Date: February 5, 2002 at 20:49:48 Pacific
Reply:
I don't think its possible. Every drive has a recycle bin exclusively for the files deleted on that drive and no other. But I see no reason why you still cant use the drive for backups?
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Response Number 2
Name: Dave357 Date: February 5, 2002 at 22:09:43 Pacific
Reply:
Mark is correct. If you manage to get rid of the recycle bin, it will be recreated at the next bootup.
Dave
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Response Number 3
Name: Bryco Date: February 6, 2002 at 03:20:25 Pacific
Reply:
I have 5 partitions over two hard drives. It dows not matter which recycle bin I use they are all the same bin.
If I trash something on my E: drive I see it in the recylce bin on any and all drives.
I can empty it from my G: drive if I choose.
Bryan
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Response Number 4
Name: tinkerbong Date: February 6, 2002 at 03:45:53 Pacific
Reply:
Bryan, windows is fakin' you out with a desktop.ini file. The files are retained on the drive on which they were deleted, they are just renamed and listed in recycle bin. To see this, open winfile.exe and look in recycle bin of each drive.
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Response Number 5
Name: Tibor Date: February 6, 2002 at 04:16:56 Pacific
Summary: 3 options: 1. Get a jaz drive. They have 2GB disks. 2. Get a DVD-RAM drive. They go anywhere from 2 to 8 GB (ballpark figure off the top of my head). 3. Get a new hard drive. DVD-RAM is SUPER expens...
Summary: Your new drive will be much faster, so that will offset the extra space to be scanned. And since you will not have much more on the new one scanning may take less time. ... and since your hard drive w...
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