Does the Recycle Bin occupy the C drive?

No, it takes up the space of the c drive and other drives. The location of the recycle bin corresponds to the folder named RECYCLER in each hard disk partition; the recycle bin folder located on the C drive occupies the space of the C drive, and the recycle bin folders of other disks occupy the space of the corresponding disk. On which disk the user deletes content, the deleted content will be placed in the RECYCLER of that disk and occupy the capacity of that disk.

The operating environment of this tutorial: Windows 7 system, Dell G3 computer.

The Recycle Bin is one of the system folders in the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is mainly used to store documents and data temporarily deleted by users. Files stored in the Recycle Bin can be restored.

The system's Recycle Bin displays an icon on the desktop

The Recycle Bin is a special folder, which is located in the root directory of each hard disk partition by default. RECYCLER folder and is hidden. When you delete a file and move it to the Recycle Bin, you essentially put it in this folder and it still takes up disk space. Only by deleting it in the Recycle Bin or emptying the Recycle Bin can the file be truly deleted and more disk space obtained for the computer.

The system default setting is: the Recycle Bin folder of each partition occupies 10% of the total size of the partition, but you can change this setting.

So, the Recycle Bin folder located on the C drive occupies the space of the C drive, and the Recycle Bin folders of other drives occupy the space of the corresponding drive. On which disk the content is deleted, the deleted content is placed in the RECYCLER of the disk.

For example, if you delete files from the D drive to the Recycle Bin but have not emptied the Recycle Bin, the files you just deleted will still occupy the capacity of the D drive and have nothing to do with the C drive.

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