Diskeeper's Undelete creates giant Recovery Bin

[Waltm]

Recently we installed Diskeeper's Undelete 2009 on my son's Windows Vista PC. After about 2 months we decided we didn't want Undelete on his system anymore nd uninstalled it (it took 3 separate operations, but we finally got Undelete uninstalled and the Vista Recycle Bin back).

PROBLEM: Shortly after uninstalling Undelete we noticed that the hard drive was almost completely full--only 5 GB free space out of a total of 280 GB. This seemed very strange, so we ran a utility called DiskPie to find out what was consuming all the hard drive. To our surprise, DiskPie reported that 55% of the hard drive was consumed by a file/folder called "Recovery Bin." Recovery Bin was created by Undelete. It should have gone away when we uninstalled Undelete. Now here's a strange thing: DiskPie appears to be the only program that can "see" this giant Recovery Bin file/folder. Recovery Bin doesn't show up in Windows Vista Explorer, even though we have view hidden files enabled.

What's going on? How do we delete Undelete's legacy Recovery Bin? Does it even really exist?

I've submitted several requests for help to Diskeeper, but no response yet. That's why I'm posting here. We need this computer back now. Does Vista have some extra layer of invisibility for certain files?

Thanks.

I'm not running Vista but I would look in control panel, programs and features and see if the Recovery Bin is there and can be uninstalled, if not, I would delete that file/folder and see if you get your hd space back.

[kilgoretrout]

I assume you can either not see or, if you can see it, you can't delete the file from within windows. If that's the case, I would suggest using a linux livecd like slax:

http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php

The restrictions on the problem folder are probably being imposed by the windows OS. From within a linux environment you should be able to delete that folder and get your hard drive space back. See my post here:

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...highlight=slax

Post back if you're not sure what to do.