Corrupted Recycle Bin & computer freezing

Hey all,

I am also suffering from a corrupted recycle bin. It's strange though.

If you look at my specs you will see I have multiple HDD. My "E" drive is the 2TB Hitachi drive formatted GPT (not MBR) NTFS, no more than a month old. Everything ran perfectly on my previous Win7 Ult x64 image. I just recently did a full restore, wiped my drive clean and installed Win7 Pro x64. Everything is running well.

I have my xbox360 linked to my "E" drive for my movies. My dad was watching a movie on my xbox as I was watching a movie on my PC from the same drive (i have done this before). When I went to empty my recycle bin my computer completely locked up. I had to shut down.

When i restarted I tried to empty the bin and received the corrupt error. I deleted the bin from the drive with the CMD line. Error stopped. The error would come back after restart and PC continues to freeze.

I am currently running check disk on "E" and repairing. Its going to take a long time due to the size and amount of data. I am stumped for what could cause this. Is it the GPT format? Is WMC messing things up? Could I have just corrupted the drive with a bad file? After Check Disk if problem persists I will probably wipe drive.

All incite is welcome and encouraged. Thank You!!

kpoverdorf said:

Hey all,

I am also suffering from a corrupted recycle bin. It's strange though.

If you look at my specs you will see I have multiple HDD. My "E" drive is the 2TB Hitachi drive formatted GPT (not MBR) NTFS, no more than a month old. Everything ran perfectly on my previous Win7 Ult x64 image. I just recently did a full restore, wiped my drive clean and installed Win7 Pro x64. Everything is running well.

I have my xbox360 linked to my "E" drive for my movies. My dad was watching a movie on my xbox as I was watching a movie on my PC from the same drive (i have done this before). When I went to empty my recycle bin my computer completely locked up. I had to shut down.

When i restarted I tried to empty the bin and received the corrupt error. I deleted the bin from the drive with the CMD line. Error stopped. The error would come back after restart and PC continues to freeze.

I am currently running check disk on "E" and repairing. Its going to take a long time due to the size and amount of data. I am stumped for what could cause this. Is it the GPT format? Is WMC messing things up? Could I have just corrupted the drive with a bad file? After Check Disk if problem persists I will probably wipe drive.

All incite is welcome and encouraged. Thank You!!

What exactely did the error say???

Something along the lines of - "The recycle bin on E: is corrupted. Would you like to empty it?".

I have disconnected WMC from sharing that drive and I also ran a full disk check on the drive and it came back clean.

I think for some reason when WMC and I are reading from the drive at the same time it freezes the computer and the corrupts the recycle bin. I can't seem to correspond a Event to this freezing or corrupt bin.

It just happened again.

I was downloading to the drive with utorrent and watching a blu-ray movie from it. I went into the drive to pull up a file I downloaded and the computer froze. I had to do a hard boot. There is no event log for this instance. Could the face that the drive was formatted using GPT cause it to be faulty? I am deleting drive and reformatting it to troubleshoot.

Alright, I have done some extensive trouble shooting and discovered that I probably have a bad OS install. The computer freezes with any drive, any media player, and any movie when I try to navigate back to my drives list.

Now I will wipe my drive do a clean install and try again. Is there a more effective way to wipe the drive other than do a custom install and delete the partition? Or is that good enough?

Kpoverdorf,

You might try a repair install first to see if that may be able to fix it to try and avoid doing a custom or clean install.