Yep, the Recycle Bin can become corrupted. In my case, it happened after I
removed the Norton Protected Recycle Bin. (Although, to be fair, that might
have been coincidental.) Searching the Internet led me to this solution:
When your View settings are set to show hidden files and folders, you'll see
a folder called Recycler in each of your partitions. Open it and you'll see
one or more icons with long numerical names that begin with the letter S.
These are the Recycle Bins. You need to delete them, but you can't do it
from the GUI - you'll have to do it from the Command Prompt. Now reboot.
Windows will recreate new, blank Recycle Bins in all your partitions. That
solved it for me.
Of course, doing this will permanently delete the contents of your Recycle
Bins.
Rocky
ksosa said:
Okay I need some help here, I have a couple of systems that get the "The
Recycle Bin on drive letter:\ is corrupt or invalid. Do you want to empty
the Recycle Bin for this drive?" I have installed the SP1a as MS recommends
that should resolve the issue, but it does really, Some days it will work
fine and other days the end user will get the error message again and soem
other days they wont. ????? what is going on here.
