Lightroom and deletions

I am running Lightroom 4 with Windows 7. My lightroom has been upgraded with each new edition.
I have found that I am unable to delete any photos from my hard drive disc for the years (in my case) 2005 to 2010. This is roughly 18,000 photos and I still have editing to do. Photos can be deleted for 2011 onwards. I believe that this occurred when I updated to Lightroom 4, though I cannot be certain. The photos are in My Main image folders on my hard drive and can be located in windows explorer from within Lightroom 4 they just cannot be deleted. When I try to delete a photo I get the usual window offering me a choice of deletion from the hard disc or removal from Lightroom. When I select Delete I get a message that says " The file named photo# could not be removed to the Recycle Bin". No other information is given. The file can be removed from Ligfhtoom.
I shoot raw images so deletion from the Main Image folder is not an option with the number of photos I am talking about It would be far too tedious and time consuming. Has anyone else encountered this problem and if so do you have an answer to fix it?
June

I can think of two reasons why you might not be able to delete photos.
Your recycle bin is full and needs to be emptied (but its probably not that if you can delete from some folders)
The permissions on these folders are incorrect and need to be change to write access.
I shoot raw images so deletion from the Main Image folder is not an option with the number of photos I am talking about It would be far too tedious and time consuming.
I have no idea what this means, nor why RAW photos would have different deletion issues than JPGs or TIFs, could you explain?

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