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Deleted files from secondary drive not in recycle bin

Anonymous
2015-02-23T20:45:10+00:00

I have seen many post on this subject here and on numerous other sites. All of which do not solve this. 

My Dilemma:

Deleted files from secondary internal SATA drive are not showing up in recycle bin, while files that are deleted from the primary drive appear as expected. Shift+Del is not done to bypass the recycle bin. The drive is brand new. No external media connected. All files (including system files, drives, and extensions) are shown. The recycle bin icon shows it has items in it, and when I empty the recycle bin it prompts to delete the correct amount of files (including the invisible files). I can see the files if I delete them while Recycle bin is open, but they disappear when I refresh (F5) or close and reopen the recycle bin. The files can be restored when they can be seen. I can make changes to the drive’s Recycle bin properties (nothing is set to bypass the recycle bin). I can also see the invisible files in CCleaner, but Disk Cleanup shows nothing in the recycle bin. However, disk clean up will clean the invisible files when ran. All users are affected (the users account, my user account, and admin account).

The primary drive is a SSD. Secondary drive is mechanical SATA HDD. Would that cause any problem?

Steps taken so far are:

  • Ran in Clean boot and Safe mode to eliminate third party software.
  • Disconnected all removable media
  • Checked Event Viewer (no errors for the days of testing)
  • Ran SFC /scannow (found two errors that were fixed, rebooted, recycle bin issue still present)
  • Checked and installed latest updates (MS and all applications)
  • Ran  rd /s /q X:$Recycle.Bin on all partitions, rebooted (where X is the drive letter)
  • Checked for an updated driver for drive and SATA controller (up to date)
  • Rebuilt the partition on the secondary drive
  • Removed secondary drive and tested with spare drive. (same results)
  • Open Recycle bin, navigated to the folder\view options click the “Apply to all Folders” and "Reset Folders"  rebooting after each selection.

Additional Info:

Single Domain environment

User profile recreated less than a month ago. I do not know if the recycle bin problem was present prior to the profile being recreated. 

User wanted to restore a file that he just sent to the recycle bin when he discovered the problem.

System Specs:

Windows 7 pro x64 (OS came pre-installed from factory)

HP Z420 Workstation

Intel xeon processor

8GB RAM

250GB SSD

500GB SATA

If anything else is needed let me know. All insight is appreciated,

Mike

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-02-29T00:51:36+00:00

    Any luck? I am having the same problem, primary drive SSD, secondary drive SATA, nothing I delete is showing in the recycle bin, same as you described...

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-24T19:59:03+00:00

    John,

    I do not trust anything that makes changes to the registry and avoid those products and/or options like they are the plague.

    Mike

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-02-24T19:39:19+00:00

    ....I can also see the invisible files in CCleaner, but Disk Cleanup shows nothing in the recycle bin...

    You didn't by any chance run CCleaner's registry cleanup tool, did you?

    John

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-02-24T18:00:49+00:00

    John,

    You trick did not work. Do you have anymore suggestion?

    Would Defraging the Secondary SATA drive make a difference?

    Mike

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-02-23T21:56:56+00:00

    An easy trick to try for corrupt recycle bins is to throw an empty Notepad file in there and then try to empty the bin, sometimes this empty notepad file trick fixes things.  Just create a Notepad file, then delete it and try to empty the Recycle Bin and see what happens.

    John

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