Corrupted recycle bin on MyBook

ten4 · 12 Jun 2017

Hello,
Helping my brother remotely. He gets the "The Recycle Bin on E:\ is corrupted. Do you want to empty the Recycle Bin for this Drive?"

I remoted in, launched a CMD prompt as admin, and typed, rd /s /q G:\$Recycle.bin - then ran chkdsk E: /f - but after restarting, he says the error is back.

Again I remoted in, launched a CMD prompt as admin, and typed, sfc /scannow - which reported no errors.

Any thoughts about useful next steps - I'd sure be grateful for your wisdom and thoughts.

Thanks

spunk · 13 Jun 2017

Run Check Disk with the /R switch on the E: drive (ie) E:\>chkdsk /r and press enter. Then type a Y to unmount the drive. This will go thru 5 stages and take a while.
The Hidden Recycle Bin may be residing on a couple of bad sectors, Check Disk /R will check for that.

bro67 · 13 Jun 2017

The MyBooks are notorious for having issues. You may also want to check to see if the drive is going bad.