Recycle bin on external hard drive is corrupted.

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Samuel Gutteridge

I have started to get a popup stating "The Recycle Bin on F:\ is corrupted. Do you want to empty the Recycle Bin for this drive?". Clicking on either option has seemingly no effect and the popup just reappears after a few seconds. This started immediately after I tried applying the security permissions for F:\ to all subfolders, so presumably this is what has caused the issue, but I can't find a way to reset the permissions to what they should be.I have seen this thread however the permissions-based solution did not fix the issue, while trying to execute the command rd /s /q F:\$Recycle.bin re

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