[Sandman78]

I deleted a 200gb partition and re-created & formatted it. It then had a "RECYCLER" folder on it. This is not my primary drive in the system, so I checked the other drives and partitions in the system and they do not have the folder. The folder was not on the drive before, and I am the one who partitioned it when it was brand new. I checked my laptop's drives, and they don't have the "RECYCLER" folder either. All the drives are NTFS (laptop is also). I also created a 80gb partition on an external drive yesterday on the same system, and it also doesn't have the folder.

Why would that folder show up all of a sudden, and why don't any of my other drives have it?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

[Sandman78]

I forgot about unchecking "Hide Protected Operating System Files" on my other drives and laptop(when looking for the folder). I did that and I see it, but on the drive in question, it act's like it's not considered an "operating system file". I'm so used to opening a new drive and NOT seeing anything, except this time I saw "RECYCLER". Wonder why that's different? For all my other systems (and drives on the same system) I have to uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System Files" to see the folder. But not this drive.

[Sandman78]

Ok, I fixed the "problem".

I knew something didn't look right. Whenever I create a new partition or format, I'm used to exploring the drive and seeing nothing, and at most maybe a "cloudy" folder (hidden). But this RECYCLER folder was as yellow/gold(non hidden) as it gets. It wasn't a hidden file and it wasn't a system file. I believe it was the real recycler folder, the attributes were just funky. It had something to do with Norton Protected Recycle Bin(Norton Antivirus 2005). I disabled that feature on all the drives, booted in safe mode, did a quick format on the drive, rebooted, and now the RECYCLER folder is a hidden/system folder. So you can't see it with "Show hidden Files" enabled, but if you uncheck "Hide Protected System Files" you can see it. Thank you for your help.

[tmax]

hello all:

Very informative posts, I have a question regarding the recycled and recyler folders and NAV 2005 you are taking about.

I just bought an new system with win xp pro, I also purschased a USB drive kit, which allowed me to take the previous computer's HD. Now, once I hooked my old drive into my new system, I deleted the old windows xp home that resided on it, I deleted all and anything to do with programs and OS. I only kept data that I really needed from the old system. I converted the old drive to NTFS from FAT32 anf off I went everything seemed OK.

I just Installed NAV 2005 and tried to run a full system scan. NAV 2005 kept aborting and giving me the following error;
"Error: "Norton AntiVirus was unable to scan your computer for infections." (3019,6), it gave me a link to a buletin on how to fix it . . . It didn't work.

http://service1.symantec.com/Support/nav.nsf/docid/2004032615461906

While watching NAV going to it's process, I noticed that it crashed when it was scanning a folder named recycler on my old drive. I got to thinking that I didn't have a folder named recycler or one named recycled, I could not see them, even with the show system folder on, so i got to a cmd prompt and just did a simple cd recycler on the old drive and there it was. I have a recycled and recycler folder and I believe that the two folders are keeping NAV from doing a full system scan.

Does anyone know what I should do, short of reformatting my old drive

I know this is long post, I really appreciate the help

Thanks T