TL : DR My computer BSOD's on Opening or emptying Recycle bin, and BSOD's on External Hard Drive Delete Attempts


My system specs are

Windows XP Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 3

Dual Core T2600 @ 2.16GHz
2 GB RAM

GPU ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
And I run two monitors The main one at 1920*1200 and the secondary at 1024*768

That's most of my information if anything else is needed to help just let me know and ill try to post it. Now onto the problem.

As the title states I am getting BSOD's. However I only get these BSOD's when I try to access my recycle bin or try to delete something that is on my external hard drive (which is a Western Digital 500GB My Book). I can however delete files from my C:/ drive and send them to the recycle bin, but when i try to empty my recycle bin either directly or indirectly through a third party program I get BSOD.

So at first i suspected maybe some maleware so i ran SpyBot S&D, A2 Free, Mc Crappy, and a few other Anti Malware Programs. They all came up clean no traces of anything. So then I thought might as well run a Registry Check and clean it, This did nothing either. Next I ran a Disk Check through the command prompt and rebooted so it could check my disk for errors. After waiting for it to finish it came up with nothing. Finally i suspected that maybe Terra Copy (a third party file transferring program that i replaced the windows default with) may be causing the problem so I took it to my college campuses tech desk where they wiped and reinstall a free copy of windows XP and the other school RELATED software that I use. I thought that this must fix it. The end all solution to fix most problems is a HD wipe. Wrong I get home boot up and try to open my still shown as full recycle bin and BSOD.

So this is where i am left now I have run out of all but one idea which is to take my Laptop back to the tech desk tommorrow and have them replace all the hardware in it. But I figured I would ask around on the internet before doing so to see if i could get some ideas as to what it might be. Thanks in advance to anyone that offers any thing usefull.What is the blue screen error?I can click on the recycle bin and find out for you real quick BRBHere's the read out



A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer, if this screen appears again follow these steps:

Disable or uninstall any anti virus, disk defragmentation, or back up utilities. Check you hard drive configuration, and check for any updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.

*** STOP: 0x00000023 (0x000E01000, 0xA9699B7c, 0xA9699878, 0x8052BED2)

Beginning Dump of Physical Memory
Physical Memory dump Complete
Contact you system administrator or tech support group for further assistance.Okay, that's almost always a hd problem. Take the following steps:

1) Backup all critical data to an off disk medium.
2) Boot to the Recovery Console and run chkdsk /rI've run the CHKDSK /r and here is the log file of the results taken from the event viewer winlogin from the reboot after the CHKDSK

CHECKING file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 159 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 159 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 159 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
The upcase file content is incorrect.
Correcting errors in the uppercase file.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

97683455 KB total disk space.
21048592 KB in 50051 files.
14928 KB in 7047 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
127131 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
76492804 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
24420863 total allocation units on disk.
19123201 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
f0 e2 00 00 15 df 00 00 1d 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 .........-......
15 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 d2 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
f6 cd 3c 04 00 00 00 00 1a 4f 52 1c 00 00 00 00 ..<......OR.....
10 12 24 05 00 00 00 00 96 d1 c9 4f 01 00 00 00 ..$........O....
00 33 5d 9d 04 00 00 00 04 b4 54 1a 06 00 00 00 .3].......T.....
99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 a0 38 07 00 83 c3 00 00 ..6......8......
00 00 00 00 00 40 b4 04 05 00 00 00 87 1b 00 00 [emailprotected]

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.


For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.I said to run chkdsk /r from the Recovery Console.Well here lays the problem I don't have a windows CD since my windows license as well as this laptop and all the other software was provided by my college as part of the tuition. So if I want to run the recovery console I will have to bring it to the school's tech desk where they have a copy of the windows disk.

I was planning on going to the tech desk again tommorrow anyways since it doesn't look like i will be able to fix my problem and the hard drive wipe didn't work. Plus since I will be there I will just ask them to give me a brand new hard disk instead of trying to repair the old one, they don't charge me anything for it anyways.

But thanks for all your suggestions and time its really appreciated.Update:

As of 5 minutes ago i have just fixed this problem. For WHATEVER reason there was a file in the recycle bin that had characters that windows was unable to read or the file type was causing problems. Whatever the case this is how i fixed it.

Step 1: Locate the location of the recycle bin which for most XP users C:/RECYCLER

Step 2: Open the command line prompt type "cd C:"

Step 3: type "rmdir RECYCLER"

Step 4: Do not try to open the recycle bin yet as it will still crash

Step 5: Restart Computer

Step 6: Create a new test file called test.txt

Step 7: Delete this file and send it to the recycle bin, since the folder is missing and has no where to go Windows will recreate the folder and place the text file in it.

Step 8: Empty the recycle bin by right clicking on it and clicking Empty

Step 9: The recycle bin should now be safe to use and problem solved

Hope this helps anyone in the future that has the same problem.

Alternatively you can download a program called "unlocker" google it. This program allow you to delete programs that are currently in use. Make it so you can view hidden system files and navigate to C:\RECYCLER through My Computer and delete it and tell unlocker you want it to be removed. You still have to make the test .txt to reform the folder.