CCleaner unable to delete an item from computer

CCleaner for Windows
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Whenever i run CCleaner,

on gutmann (35 passes)

this file:

System

C:\$Recycle.Bin\s-1///\Fallout 3.iso

always pops up and is never deleted!

Any solutions?

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Try creating an empty new text document, then delete it, then try to empty the recycle bin with Windows own built in disk cleanup.

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Did it & hardly did a thing +

yesterday I had 30gb of space left on the C:\ hard drive and after a few hours, Ive only got 1gb left. Its done that for a few weeks now. Thank goodness for the external hard drive.

Any other ideas?

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Have you tried booting into safe mode and emptying the recycle bin ?

Do you get any error message when you try to empty the bin without using CCleaner?

Did you download this via a torrent?

If you do start> search, for Fallout 3 .iso do you get any results?

xp or vista?

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No error messages when deleting without CCleaner.

I just used diskdetective and Moelskinsoft directory, both reporting that 36% (60-66gb) of my hard drive is located in '$Recycle'

Should i just manually delete it?

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Delete what? The recycle bin?

xp or vista?

7

vista

& yes should i delete the $recycle, hidden folder. Since its where all my disappearing memory is

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That will be your decision. As you know windows should recreate it. (remember backups!)

Have you had a look at the recycle bin properties to see if anything is amiss there?

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-...11-6090574.html

9

That helped! sweet I solved the problem

cheers

10

What did you do?

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Yeah what did you do? We ask because it will help others to list your steps for archiving purposes in case anyone else has a similar issue and needs a remedy a web search would list this thread.

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Is this possibly a pirated game? If it's around 20 gb then I'm not surprised CC coughed when asked to do a 35-pass overwrite. On the other hand Waka never said that he had the Empty Recycle Bin option ticked in the first place.

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If it's around 20 gb then I'm not surprised CC coughed when asked to do a 35-pass overwrite.

..or take forever to remove, and 35 pass removal is unnecessary.

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Ha! At a meg a second it would take 8 days and 3 hours. Go CCleaner!

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I got fallout3.iso using DC++ at university, some other student had it so I downloaded it from his computer. My computers graphics were nowhere near good enough to run it so of course i deleted it, also from the recycle bin. Ever since then, the hard disk space on my computer just kept disappearing.

I used 'moleskinsoft Directory size' to locate where all the missing disk space was going to, and it was in the $Recycle folder. From 3gb, Fallout3.iso all of a sudden was 66.6gb. So I simply deleted it with moleskinsoft.

Now my computer is running perfectly fine, with nothing disappearing on me.

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Thanks for posting back wakarua.

Also a belated welcome to the forums :)

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Thank you & your very much welcome