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The Recycle Bin is corrupted

This article provides a solution to an issue where the Recycle Bin is corrupted.

When you sign in to the system or try to delete a file, you receive this error message:

The Recycle Bin on <Drive> is corrupted. Do you want to empty the Recycle Bin for this drive?

Note

<Drive> might be a logical volume or a mounted volume.

This issue occurs because of a corrupted $Recycle.bin file.

To resolve the issue, run the following command from an elevated command prompt and then restart the system.

RD <Drive>$Recycle.bin /s /q