Hey, I had a bunch of songs that were tossed into the recycle bin...And I cant restore them cause the folder that they were in has apparently been deleted for good! So what I tried to do was create another folder ("Muzik") at the same location, with the same name for the songs to be restored to, but it wont let me....

What to do?  :-/Normally a new folder (in your case "Muzik") will be CREATED in the same PLACE automatically when you restore the file. Basically, there is something very, very strange going on here.

Your songs, I fear, are currently in binary heaven, so to speak. If you haven't written too much to your hard drive since this incident, you may be able to get some - if not all - your songs back with a data-recovery program.

There are computer shops that offer this service, so have a look in your area for one. Alternatively if you fancy getting those hands DIRTY, you may be able to download one from somewhere, most likely in the form of a demo. There are a few on this page at download.com

http://www.download.com/File-Disk-Management/3150-2248_4-0.html?tag=stbc.gpThanx a lot for your reply and the link...

I solved the problem by restarting the computer and voila! I was able to finally restore em all! Go figure  

Anyways now Im happy...thanx againpeople may think that they have deleted files from the recycle bin...but they are held in the msinfo2 folder which is in the recycler folder..which is a hidden file...and after three days the files that are sent to the recycle bin and deleted...do get deleted after three days..An embarrasingly easy answer to a potentially difficult problem. At least that's sorted.

But merlin, the way I thought it worked was that when you emptied the recycle bin, the file(s) in question were simply renamed (I believe they were given a question mark at the very start of the filename) which hid them from the user. They stayed on disk until eventually the hard disk fills to the brim and they have to overwrite these "deleted" files in order to store something - effectively deleting them properly. This was how disk fragmentation occurred, which was why you have to run defrag every so often.Why not try it youself here is how to...INFO2 is a hidden file that holds the information on files in the Recycle Bin and to find out more>Go to Start/Run and type in: CMD. At the prompt type in: cd\ [enter] then cd Recycled [enter] then dir [enter].
this can help people who have deleted so called files..defrag will not TOUCH them....unless the INFO2  file is  damaged...and will show up on defrag as a RED strip /block...