Recycle Bin Problem

Ted Harris

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My PC has two HDDs. One is partitioned into 2 drives. the other "F" is a VRap 150 GB SATA that I use only for flight simulation. Lately my Recycle Bin file has placed itself in to this F drive. (I am sure that I helped it some way) I have tried to force it into another drive because I don't know enough about it and it bothers me being there. I want to have as much free space in this drive as I can.
Can some one tell me how to get the Recycle Bin into one of the other drives?
 

Soundmanred

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What OS are you using?
The recycle bin is not on a specific drive, it just holds deleted files from each drive until empties.
If you delete a file off of C:, the drive space is still used on C: until the recycle bin is emptied. If you delete a file off of F:, the drive space is still used on F: until the recycle bin is emptied. No files are actually moved (on the drive or between drives), only remapped to the recycle bin until they are either restored or permanently deleted.
 

Ted Harris

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I am running Windows 7 Premium 64 bit on my "C" (OS) drive. I just wonder why I have never noticed the Recycle file on any of my drives, and I have plenty of room on my "C" and "E" drives. I just don't want it on my "F" drive. Thanks for the help.
 

VirtualLarry

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The first time you delete (recycle) files on a secondary drive is when Windows creates a recycle bin folder on that drive. Each drive has one.