If you delete stuff on a drive it will put it on that recycling bin on that drive. If you view hidden folders you should see a recycle bin on each drive partition. It would take time to transfer files to the "Desktop" Recycling bin. Now I don't know why deleting stuff would got to your external drive. Though globally ever file you delete you will see in the Desktop Recycle bin.

Also any disk that you connect physically to your machine will be a local disk. Only network mapped file shares mapped as a drive will not be a local disk.

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to see the recycle bin on each drive you have to view "Hide protected operating system files"

Also if you want to skip the recycle bin when deleting files just hit ctrl and delete. It will prompt you the are you sure message and just delete it. Its what I do.

Last edited by Jsamp (2008-06-01 04:41:28)

Jsamp-  Why can't I make it connect like my USB flash drive.  When I connect it, its listed under devices with removable media.
jcrt2000- I have it connected that way.  I didn't know it would slow transfer speeds though.  I'd rather have faster transfer speeds then be able to disconnect it without going to safely remove hardware.

I hate Windows!

if you use shift+delete to delete files, shouldnt it perminantly delete the files?
that way it wont go to recylcing bin.

ps3_hacker1234 wrote:

if you use shift+delete to delete files, shouldnt it perminantly delete the files?
that way it wont go to recylcing bin.

ya it is shift and delete don't know why I said ctrl lol. I even use it all the time.