I have a 8TB external HDD,
After organizing (adding, deleting renaming, replacing... deleting more)
I notice it started to slow down quite a lot. Specially when deleting
So I try to empty the recycle bin, but it is NOT getting populated. I wait overnight on Empty the RB command. and still didn't get the "Are you sure you want to delete..." prompt the next day, though the status bar still shows as working on it. (a green progress bar background over the address bar on the file explorer - recycle bin folder)
After some research I try the std. command prompt (as admin) line== rd /s /q C:\$Recycle.bin
No reaction, Also tried Disk Cleanup - it went as far as the "Scanning: Recycle Bin". then it stopped
The Check the Drive for System Erros, came clean (did it twice...)
Again, with over 4TB of data on this HDD, I do not want to copy all elsewhere and format the drive.
Is there anything I can do?