I never seen this problem before and was wondering how to fix it. Everytime I want to empty my recycle bin and it asks me if I want to delete so many items I press yes and then another message pops up and says: Drive D not formatted. Would you like to format now? Why does it do that? And I have my task scheduler run so it can defrag once a week but it keeps wanting to defrag D and it is set to C. But the defrag won't let it defrag D. Any fixes for these problems would be helpful. Thanks to everyone who helps!

Do you have a D: drive? If so, is it a partition on your hard drive? What is on your D: drive? Ray

a program called ERASER works great for emptying the recy.bin www.heidi.ie/eraser/ See if this helps you ?

That's about as awful advice as you could give Big Bob. Eraser is a data destruction program which will destroy Karrie's Recycle Bin instead of Empty it - two seperate and distinctly different operations, not that you would care or even know of the difference, obviously. Since Eraser does in fact overwrite every file in the Recycle bin with DOD (Department of Defense data masking algorithm) sequence three or more times in order to 'Erase' it, it might just also get as confused as defrag and begin operation on the wrong drive/folder and in total data destruction mode to boot. I can only hope the above happens to you and as soon as possible for posting such insane advice. I suspect you know very little of how computers work and even less of the programs you recommend, this makes you and your advice more dangerous than helpful and all seemingly just for the joy of seeing your posts on the web? You're a real piece of work, Big Bob. Karrie - please answer Ray's very important questions. We must know every detail you can describe about your hard drive(s) and the way they are set up before we can proceed with a SAFE recommendation. You have a very strange situation going on, one that is potentialy dangerous to the data on your system.

Melee5 .. Good observation, friend. Little harsh, but to the point. There are a lot of folks out there who not only don't give very helpful advice, but instead, give very dangerous advice to boot. I don't know how many times I've seen FORMAT C: as an answer to really trivial fixes for Windows. Even worse when there's a dual-boot system there and the Win98 system is actually NOT the primary OS. It just had to be installed ahead of XP or Win2K to work properly. That advice is usually followed by uncontrollable weeping on the part of the original poster when they can no longer boot to their other OS. Don

Ok here are the answers to Ray's questions. I hope this will help you. Yes I do have a D drive. My properties for it says it is a local drive and the file system is FAT. Yes it is a partition because I only have one HD. It says Used is 0 Bytes and free is 0 bytes. That's all I can tell you on the D drive. I hope that helps. If you need more info just email me and put something in the subject line like Computing.net or something that I won't delete it thinking is is junk mail.

Karrie... Please do this. Go to Start/Run and type in "fdisk" (no quotes)and OK. When the first DOS window opens asking about large disk support, just press "Enter". Next press the "4" key and then "Enter" again. Record all the information there and post it. Close the DOS window with repetative pressing of the "Esc" key until the window closes. Ray