I then tried to restore the item from yesterday, clicking yes yes to whatever dialog popped up, and booya! Now my recycle bin is working and not throwing up the errors anymore. I tried each of these and none fixed the problem. I closed all the windows and went back to the folder and it had a recycle bin icon there so whatever I did to mess it up was fixed by simply right clicking the icon in the $recycle.bin folder and choosing 'restore previous versions' option. it wasn't a permissions issue so it seems.Īll I was trying to do was delete 15gb's worth of system files left over from a vista file on my backup drive. I tried the steps here but they weren't the same thing. Why is it trying to use C:'s recycle bin? GrRrRrR. I closed it, double clicked it again, error error 'recycle bin on C: corrupted.' blah blah. error same one error, and it opened the bin. Would you like to empty the recycle bin now?' yes | no. I *think* it was after I tried deleting some stuff within the 'programs' folder on C: that the recycle bin took a crap on me. This worked but it still wouldn't let me delete the parent directory. So I start going into these subfolders individually deleting whatever I could. When it finished I tried to delete them for good and it STILL said I had no permissions. So I go into permissions for the entire C: drive and grant myself full permissions on everything and let it do it it's thing. For some reason I did NOT have permission to delete these files. I proceeded to delete them only to find out I couldn't. I wanted to delete these cause it was wasting a lot of space. The install was functional and workign but I didn't want to format that drive again. Now I had all my files on C: that I wanted to keep (mp3's, videos, pics) along with the system files for a botched vista install. No compatibility issues, no hardware troubles, no gaming troubles etc. All was well on D:, it booted up and ran just fine for the last year, absolutely no issues with anything amazingly. Since I had not activated vista yet I just reinstalled it on D: drive and defaulted to boot from it. Somehow I chose the wrong drive to install vista on and fubared it. My other drive, D:, was a clean formatted 200gb drive that it was meant to be on. drive C: had no space on it after install. Yes I know it's weird but when I initially got vista I accidently put it on C: which was my old xp drive I had all my music and such on. Drive D: is where vista resides and is my default drive. Drive C: is a backup drive just for holding data.

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