Using Windows 7 Professional 64 bit with SP1 installed on an HP HDX-18t laptop. I recently installed an SSD drive on C:. Prior to installing, I cloned the old drive to the SSD. After installing I booted to the Win install DVD and at the Install Now screen I choose Repair your computer; then when asked to "Repair and Restart" I chose No. When Win 7 was listed in the OS's available for recovery I selected and pressed next and then choose command prompt. In this command prompt I moved the Users directory from the C: (SSD) drive to the D: drive using the command: robocopy /copyall /mir /xj c:\Users d:\Users. (yes my ssd was still the c: drive and secondary drive was still the d: drive). Next I deleted the users directory from C: using the command: rmdir /s /q c:\users. Lastly I make a NTFS Junction/symlink using the command: mklink /j c:\users d:\Users. After rebooting, and trying all programs, everything seemed fine, except the recycle bin is not working properly. The Recycle Bin Icon is on the desktop, but when I delete something from the desktop (which is now technically on the d: drive), or for that matter from a windows explorer window on D: drive, I get "do you want to permanently delete this file?" and if I select yes it bypasses the recycle bin and is deleted. There is no d:\$recycle.bin directory, but there is one on both the C: drive and my external f: drive. If I delete something from the c: drive via windows explorer it askes if I want the item sent to the recycle bin and shows up there when deleted. If I delete something from the external F: drive, I also get asked if I want to send this item to the recycle bin, and when I say yes, the Recycle Bin Icon on the desktop shows something in it, but when you click to open the recycle bin icon nothing shows up. When you use windows explorer to check the C: or F: \$recycle.bin\recycle.bin there is also nothing in either of these, but the option on the recycle bin allow me to undo the delete or empty the recycle bin. I have tried deleting all recycle bins and rebooting with no change. Right clicking on the recycle bin icon and selecting properties shows all three drives, and the settings are the same for all three drives (except the size of the drive and recycle bin) and the circle in frot of "Don't move files to the Recycle Bin. Revome files immedately when deleted" is not selected. I can't undo the Junction/symlink and try to see if that is the problem, because that would disconnect me from the Users directory. How do I get the D: recycle bin to work again seeing all my User files (including desktop) are now on the d: drive?
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