How do I delete files from an external hard drive?

I am running LR 3.6 on Windows 7 and keep my images on an external drive rather than my internal one. When I select the "delete from disk" option, it removes the file from the catalog but not from the external drive. I have to do this manually. What am I doing wrong?

It should be deleting from both the catalogue and disk.
Are you sure that you don't have two copies of the file on disk, and (of course) Lightroom only knows of one of them?
Try this:  before you delete a file, right-click on it and choose Show In Explorer. Then delete the file from disk using Lightroom. Does it disappear from the open Explorer window? (You might need to right click in the Explorer window and choose Refresh.
After your experiment, get back to us.
Hal

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