Elianna8

Hi Jerry - thanks for your reply. Had to do some research on the web to figure out what you were talking about and how to go about it... (thanks for helping me learn something new!). From what I see, neither external drive appears in the system restore status window - only the C drive appears (status: monitoring). In the disk management window, each external hard drive is configured as "Optimized for Quick removal" where write caching is disabled so that the device can be removed without the 'safe removal' icon... I have no idea what to do regarding the recycle bin?? I guess as long as I can remove them by shutting down the PC if needed, and there is no risk in this, I'm ok...