Can't empty my recycle bin on my external drive

When I try to empty my recycle bin on my external drive (F) I am not able to do so. I receive the following message Failures:
Failed: F:\RECYCLED\Df1.ZIP (The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.)
Failed: F:\RECYCLED\Df3.tib (The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.)

Please help.

 

Have you run checkdisk on the drive?

 

That's correct Marthe. Run it as instructed in best answer - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061130011837AA11eCv

 

Thank you for your replies. I ran disc check as you suggested. I then right clicked on my recycle bin and ran one of my options Erase Recycle Bin (1- pass First-last 2k) and the problem seems to have been fixed. Thank you.

 

Good thing he probably isn't running 7 - I've experienced the chkdsk bug and while is not catastrophic, it's annoying when you want to fix corruption.

 

Do you have a link to an article about that? I didn't know about a checkdisk bug in Win7.

 

It's basically a memory leak that gets out of control, sucking up almost all the memory you have in a matter of seconds.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Tes...-CHKDSK-bug-in-Windows-7-RTM-build/1249504434

 

That is interesting, but it doesn't sound like it is wide spread.