This time, enter the following command: sfc /scannow If the desktop icon goes missing, restore it as described above. Only the Recycle Bin data on this drive will be deleted.
Replace the “X” with the letter of the drive containing the corrupted Recycle Bin. Everything in the properties window is greyed out except Display delete confirmation. It’s likely that the tool is allowed to use a huge chunk of your free space, so it uses it to create a lot of different restore points, instead of deleting older points as new ones are created.
That way you don’t need to empty the trash for all drives. If you get the message “Recycle bin on (drive) is corrupted” when you attempt to restore a file from the Recycle Bin, it’s best to just delete the affected folder. The deleted files are temporarily stored in these folders until the Recycle Bin is emptied. To the user, the Recycle Bin icon looks like a single recycle bin, but Windows actually uses a separate hidden folder on each drive.
