need to remove unewanted folders on backup F drive

Posted this in MS XP General forum and the only one posted solution was to
reformat the backup (F) drive which is not possible at this time: it is
functional with all my documents and pictures.

My C drive is not large enough to move the data over to reformat the F (
backup) drive.

The problem:

OS- XP Home, SP 2

Four year old computer,
Last week I did a reformat of my C drive, and appropriately backed my C
drive up, my
whole C drive,

to an external 250GB HDD, 'F' drive just in case.

Did several backups-- again, just in case.

The reformat and clean install of XP Home and SP2 went well onto my C drive,
I installed my
software and things seem fine on the C drive.


Now I wish to remove ALL my backup files/ folders, from my F drive, the
250Gb external HDD.

Most files were deleted.

However, there remains two folders, two hidden folders:

1) System Volume Information

Can not even access the System Volume Information folder on the F drive at
all.

2) Recycler (the one remaining file appears to be 3.2GB, and the system
seems to have set the size of this file/ folder to march my external hdd. I
have never seen this folder on my F drive before.)

Problem is these two folders are not deleting from my external HDD (F) and a
pop up
message is telling me I can not delete then as they are being used, which is
not/ should not be
the case.

Please advise the best way for me to access these folders to delete them.

I have changed attributes from read only but the hidden attribute remains,
and some files and folders remain hidden and disallow deleting.

Especially the one large file in the F drive Recycler that will not go away,
that large
3.2GB file.

There is a suggested MS solution to remove a recycled file, but:

In CMD.exe at C\documents and settings I typed cd f:\ and the command to
change directories from my c drive to my f drive does not take place to
allow me to access the file.

This is the MS suggested solution for the elimination of that recycler file
via DOS prompts.


I am OK with the RECYCLER and System Volume Information folders being on my
C drive and want to eliminate these folders only from my F drive.


Please advise. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Please be specific as to how to remove these unwanted F drive folders if it
is at all possible.

Thank you in advance,
Robert



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