I am dual booting 98SE and XP Pro. My problem is that if I delete some files in Xp and allow them to go to the recycle bin and then later access the recycle bin in 98, (access it in 98, shows no files listed) upon going back to xp the files are no longer listed in the recycle bin. But if i then delete a file in xp and then go to the recycle bin this file it is listed. The interesting thing is that if I then go to delete the recycle bin it will say something like "Do you want to delete these 3 items?" thus indicating that the previously deleted files are there somewhere. Has anyone else encountered this,? and if so is there a solution? Thanks in advance

Do you have your XP on an NTFS drive? That may be contributing to the "problem". I have run into your "problem" with my 14 partition system. I think part of the problem is that the info deleted on one drive, goes into that drive's Recycle Bin. Another part of it is that in Win98, the Recycle Bin is a hidden folder called Recycled. In XP and W2k its called Recycler. Normally, the Recycle Bins connect all the Recycled/Recycler folders on all the partitions. In this manner, Win98 Explorer will show the same stuff in all the Recycled folders. XP and W2k does the same. W2k and XP tag the deleted info by either USER SID or, I think, Disk ID, and create a folder with that number (within the Recycle bin). My XP Recycler folder shows 2 recycle bins in the Recyler, each with a S-1-5-xx-xxxxxx... Inside are the deleted items. Win98 doesn't appear to handle the S-1-5-xx format well, nor the deleted files from an NTFS drive. My Win98 Recycle Bin Icon shows stuff in it. Double click the icon, and it shows empty. Empty it and it askes to confirm the deletion of 13 items. On the other hand, XP doesn't appear to handle the Win98 Recycled folder well. The Xp Recycle Bin doesn't show the items deleted via Win98. When you go to empty the bin though, that command looks at everything in all the folders. Thus the difference in item count. One way around the problem is to set the Recycle Bin to only the main drive used by the OS that is booted (on the Global tab of the Recycle Bin properties). However, if you delete from a different drive letter, the deleted stuff will be gone immediately and permenantly. Hope this helps.