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    External USB Hard Drive and RECYCLED folder problem

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Freakish, Nov 9, 2007.

  1. Freakish

    Freakish Notebook Geek

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    Does anyone know how to remove the "RECYCLER" folder on an external hard drive? I have an internal PATA Seagate drive which I put into an enclosure to make it an external drive. After I have formatted it as NTFS, a folder with hidden attribute named RECYCLER appeared. Files that I deleted from that drive appear on one of the folders with recycle bin icons inside the RECYCLER folder, so I don't get free space from that drive when I delete a file.

    Is there a way to disable the RECYCLER folder of external hard drives drives? When deleting a file, it could either be moved to the recycle bin of my internal hard drive or be deleted immediately. I am also using flash USB drives but I don't see a RECYCLER folder on those drives.
     
    Freakish, Nov 9, 2007
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  2. Harleyquin07

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    Try deleting files from your external HDD using the Shift+Del command. That should stop the files from going into the recycler.
     
    Harleyquin07, Nov 9, 2007
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  3. chemistry

    chemistry Notebook Consultant

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    Right clck on the Recycle Bin, select Properties, select Configure Drives Independently, then set Maximum Size of Recycle Bin to 0% on the drives where you want to eliminate the RECYCLER folder
     
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