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I have System Volume Information and $Recycle.bin on my Seagate Expansion Drive. I want to delete it but i retry almost everything with "takeownership" CMD control delete, but they keep coming back.

So i want to reinstall a new copy on my main desktop but if I re plug my Seagate Drive in, can i delete this way?

Please help! I have a new desktop i build but i need the stuff on my Seagate expansion drive and i dont want to overwrite everything and clean it. Much is really appreciated
 
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Have you run any AV software? If so then what you are seeing is probably not a virus.

You are most likely just seeing normally hidden folders.

Reference the following link:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-security/is-recyclebin-folder-a-virus/3cb18958-bf75-42f6-a6c3-824e880df242?auth=1

and this link:

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/about-recycler-and-system-volume-information-folder-in-xp-and-vista/

There are other similar links if you just simply google "What is $Recycle.bin".


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Have you run any AV software? If so then what you are seeing is probably not a virus.

You are most likely just seeing normally hidden folders.

Reference the following link:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-security/is-recyclebin-folder-a-virus/3cb18958-bf75-42f6-a6c3-824e880df242?auth=1

and this link:

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/about-recycler-and-system-volume-information-folder-in-xp-and-vista/

There are other similar links if you just simply google "What is $Recycle.bin".


 
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