ZeroAccess! Attention: cottonball

jumanji does not have a magic wand.:)

ducat1base, good that you did not find the shortcut this time. So cottonball magic has worked.

The 02ETTT and the blank folder do seem to contain a lot of files. Are these different from what you have recovered from the Recycle bin? If so, were you not interested in those files?

The one thing that surprises me now is how your data files got into the recycle bin.

Anyway, coming to formatting your Toshiba External drive, I am not sure about the demo version of the enterprise edition and the feature limitations in that.

So I would rather recommend that you format your Toshiba external drive with HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool Free Download It is only a 96KB download and so you can manage easily.

Remove all other external drives except the drive you want to format so that you cannot make any mistake of formatting a wrong drive.

Once you download it, just right click on the .exe file and Run it as administrator. Check that the right drive is selected and format it.

I am off from SevenForums till 11th inst.

I didn't know about prox. and ult. Should start using it henceforth.

Merci beaucoup.:)

The disk is formatted. I'm cured! Thanks, cottonball and jumanji. It only took two weeks and four pages to get it all cleaned out ;-)

Thanks for the concise instruction. I was worried everything would be over my head but you both brought it down to my level and I learned quite a lot along the way.

I wish you both the best solving other users' problems!