Unusable disk partition

[Colin Law]

On 6 October 2014 00:52, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> On 10/06/2014 01:03 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> On 5 October 2014 08:05, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I did download the Ubuntu iso file and I can see that the Data partition
>>> (D:
>>> drive) contains two directories; the recycle bin and a system directory.
>>> I
>>> have copied those to the the Windows partition for retrieval later.
>>
>>
>> Oh dear. Those are Windows system folders. If you're deleting the
>> drive, you don't need them. But the C drive /already/ has copies of
>> them -- all Windows drives do -- and 2 copies is Bad News.
>>
>> Delete the copies, ASAP.
>>
>
> Thanks Liam,
>
> I set up a extended partition, as you previously advised, but kept a small
> Data partition for Windows just in case. I discovered that Windows
> regenerated the recycle bin and the system directories on the Data partition
> after a reboot anyway.
>
>> A Data drive is not a Windows feature. You don't need one.
>
>
> Except for the Recycle bin, it seems.

As I understand it Windows does not need the partition for the recycle
bin, it needs the recycle bin for the partition.  Windows sees the
partition with no bin so it adds one for any files deleted on that
partition.

Colin