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Grateful for all your advice. Will do the steps.
However, before embarking on it, I just did some experiments on my own and found something interesting which might give clues to the problem.
1) Files and folders from the C: drive are all going to the Bin in a normal manner. However files from other drives (partitions) are not going there. Nor from the external drives. Although all have large bin space allocations.
2) The Bin shows nothing in it. But when I try to empty the Bin, I suddenly see a prompt showing a large number of files being deleted, more than a thousand. I stop it midway. Tried that 3 times.
3) I actually also went to 'Folder Options' and checked 'Show Hidden Files'. But still the files in the bin are not visible.
Thank you.