I just bought a WD Elements external disk. When I connected it to the computer, the disk was completely empty except for a Recycle Bin that showed up on it. It's a duplicate of the system Recycle Bin. But it's even stranger than that: it's a "mirror" of the system Recycle Bin. Anything that was in the system Recycle Bin shows up in the one on the WD disk. Anything deleted from either Recycle Bin gets deleted from the other. I not only don't understand how it got there on the new WD disk but I can't delete the WD bin. When I try to Windows warns me that I'm deleting a system folder. It looks like if I delete the bin on the WD disk Windows will delete the real Recycle Bin, as well.
Can someone please tell me why this is happening and what to do now?
Can someone please tell me why this is happening and what to do now?