I loaded a bunch of files for a back up onto my external hard drive, after removing the files, some of them went to the recycled folder on the external hard drive. When I try to delete the recycled folder, it says its in use somewhere (I even booted into safe mode). When I delete the files with-in the recycled folder they just reapear in the folder. How do I completely remove all of these files, so the person I sell the drive too wont see my files and pictures that remain in the recycled folder??
2006-09-26 20:53:47 · 5 answers · asked by Love LA 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
boot your system as usual with the external hard-drive connected.
once booted goto MyComputer and right on the drive pointing to your external hard-drive and select properties.
on the dialog appearing click on disk clean up on the General tab.
it will show the data in the recycled folder.. u can then follow the steps to clear that.
2006-09-26 20:58:51 · answer #1 · answered by sekhar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
see all the files in explorer press shift+delete apply disk cleanup
delete all the files
Defrag the external drive
Problem will be solved
2006-09-26 21:20:23 · answer #2 · answered by karwankar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use the windows explorer, go to edit, select all then delete, that should clear them from the hard drive.
2006-09-26 21:00:38 · answer #3 · answered by avilone2002 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-02 03:53:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
download ccleaner from ccleaner.com it will clear from your external drive and any nonescence stuff on your HDD
2006-09-27 03:58:11 · answer #5 · answered by blackhawks29 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋