Comments for Where's the Recycle Bin on my USB Drive?

Comment from Mandy Senior on 2009-11-17

2009-11-17T10:30:12Z

The best way to remove a virus from a USB Drive is to go to Run, type cmd, select open. In the Command Window type e: amd press enter on your keyboard. Then type the following command rd /s \recyler This will delete the recycler and the virus at the same time. It also work if the system is a FAT system by changing \recycler to \recycled

That's true only if the virus is in the recycle bin on the device. If it's not, it didn't help.

17-Nov-2009

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Comment from shay on 2008-10-14

2008-10-14T19:44:57Z

the best way before u delete a file is to move it into the computer ur using to see the files and than decide if u want to delete it or not...than u can delete it from the recycle bin if u really sure u want to delete the file

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Comment from Lucille on 2008-10-02

2008-10-02T16:41:53Z

I"ve had the same problem with having deleted without doing on purpose, the way I found easy to recover was to install a PROGRAM on my pc which is called CARD RECOVERY and best of all FREE to download

Enjoy

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Comment from Howard Rubin on 2008-09-23

2008-09-23T23:06:27Z

Very important to note:
If your USB pen drive HAS a recycle bin directory you are most likely infected with a virus or trojan. A quick confirmation of this would be to insert another pen drive and see if the directory is instantly created! The directory will be hiding a trojan (if you are lucky to be able to see this hidden file) and you most likely will have a autorun.inf in the root of the drive referencing the file. The only sure way I know of cleaning this trojan / virus is to boot from a boot DVD or CD with a good AV and trojan cleaner. Check all your drives carefully and don't put your USB drives in any other machine (Pen and hard drives) till they have been cleaned.

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Comment from Kingsley on 2008-09-23

2008-09-23T17:06:24Z

I think its good to make sure that you are doing the right thing before you decide to delete in order to avoid the hassle of recovery.

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Comment from DT on 2008-09-23

2008-09-23T15:25:22Z

> My 32gig USB thumbdrive has no Recycle Bin,
> but my 250gig external USB drive does.

I bet your 32gig USB thumbdrive is FAT32.
I'll also bet your 250gig external USB drive is NTFS.

Perhaps the FAT32 vs NTFS has something to do with whether a Recycle Bin is present or not?

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Comment from RJ on 2008-09-22

2008-09-22T16:38:50Z

I think the difference between a USB "flash drive" and an external hard drive connected via USB is simply just the drivers required, and Windows picks up on this when deciding to have a Recycle Bin or not.

So I think Windows' checker is basically looking to see if the drive's memory is solid state (IE flash memory) or magnetic (IE a hard disk). A way to test this would be to try and find an ancient 4 gig hard disk and put it in a USB enclosure, to see if Windows gives it a Recycle Bin.

Though correct me if I'm wrong, but you can also force Windows to give a flash drive a recycle bin even if it doesn't give it one automatically, right?

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Comment from Kenneth Crook on 2008-09-21

2008-09-22T03:55:44Z

Thanks Leo for your response.
As always, backup, backup, backup.
Also, THINK before deleting.

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Comment from Miche on 2008-09-21

2008-09-21T22:15:40Z

thank you so much for the info on the NTFS filesystem usb drives-I got my info back! now to back up often...thank you!!!

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