Norton Recycler Files

[Nick F]

Norton has been eating my disk space in a massive way. I found that the files were in a norton recyle folder. I cant seem to delete some of them though as I get the error message that either the file is in use or it cant locate the file.

How do I get rid of these?

[zaphod]

Right click on your Recycling bin an click "Empty Norton Protected Files". that should work. It's a killerl alright. It was a great feeling for me discovering that i free'd up around 20Gb!!!

[Nick F]

Did that and I have disbaled Norton Anti virus and recycle bin. When I try to delete the files i get the error message "cant delete file: cant read from the source disk or file"

[zaphod]

Try running chkdsk or booting up in a second OS and deleting them that way. Or maybe boot up in safe mode.