Recently we installed Diskeeper’s Undelete 2009 on my son’s Windows Vista
PC. After about 2 months we decided we didn’t want Undelete on his system
anymore and uninstalled it (it took 3 separate operations, but we finally
got Undelete uninstalled and the Vista Recycle Bin back).
PROBLEM: Shortly after uninstalling Undelete we noticed that the hard drive
was almost completely full–only 5 GB free space out of a total of 280 GB.
This seemed very strange, so we ran a utility called DiskPie to find out what was consuming all the hard drive. To our surprise, DiskPie reported that 55% of the hard drive was consumed by a file/folder called “Recovery Bin.” Recovery Bin was created by Undelete. Now here’s a strange thing: DiskPie appears to be the only program that can “see” this giant Recovery Bin file/folder. It doesn’t show up in Windows Vista explorer, even though we have view hidden files enabled.
What’s going on? How do we delete Undelete’s legacy Recovery Bin?
I’ve submitted several requests for help to Disk Keeper, but no response yet. That’s why I’m posting here. Does Vista have some extra layer of invisibility for certain files?
Thanks.
