Curious problem today noticed when using CCleaner. The cleaner program hung while trying to empty the system recycle bin. Killed off the CCleaner program and tried manual emptying of recycle bin, which did not respond. Opened cmd window as administrator and tried command rd /s /q {drive letter}:\$Recycle.bin on each drive in turn. This command hung when tried on drive Y: so killed cmd window. Tried running Explorer and selecting drive Y: which then hung. Killed Explorer window and rebooted. Tried running Explorer again and selected Y: which was ok this time. Folder found called RECYCLER. Deleted that. Also found same folder name on drive Z: so deleted that. Recycle bin working correctly now. All disk drives now show folder named $Recycle.bin in their root directory.
Drives Y: and Z: are external USB drives that used to be connected to a Windows XP machine so the name of the folder associated with the recycle bin is different to that now used for Windows 7. It just so happened that one file had just been deleted from drive Y: and this was the first file to be deleted since it had been connected to the Windows 7 machine several months earlier.
My conclusion is that when connecting an external drive to a Windows 7 machine where that drive has been used on earlier versions of Windows, it is a good idea to delete the folder RECYCLER in the root directory to prevent any problems with the future use of the recycle bin.
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