Can’t open your drive by double clicking on it?

By Luqmaan

Fed up of using your flash because you can’t open it by double clicking on it?! Getting that annoying error message or the ‘open with’ dialog asking you to select a program to open a drive?! Worry no more!

This is caused when a virus assigns the virus itself to run as auto run of your drive and an anti virus program removes the virus, so now the program is assigned to run at auto run but the program isn’t there anymore so it displays the error message.

If you don’t want to get your hands dirt you can use my application Disk Heal(Windows NT, 2000 & XP) .This program fixes this program in just two or three clicks. All you have to do is go to the ‘fix’ page and type the drive letter and click ‘fix’, restart the computer and you are done! It’s as easy as that.

Fixing it manually

As much as the program does it with just a few clicks you might want to know how to do it manually.

First goto My Computer > Tools > Folder Options
Uncheck ‘show hidden files and folders’ and ‘hide protected operating system files’
Goto the parent directory of your faulty drive.
You’ll see a file named ‘Autorun’.
Delete it.
Re-insert your drive and/or restart the computer and try opening your drive now.
It should work
That’s it!

You might want to revert to the previous settings of checking back the above mentioned preferences. They are left checked by default for your own safety in case you might delete a system file which could prove really costly sometimes.

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Updated – December 05th 2008

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3 Comments so far

david solomon June 13, 2008 7:26 pm

Thanks for the suggestion….I was fed up finding ways to get this problem fixed
Thanks again !

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Allan @ MyPageofManyThings June 24, 2008 7:11 pm

Hmm .. so I have a virus you say ? That’s some seriously bad news. It would have been helpfull if you posted the actual name of the virus though …
I’ll tty this heal thing to see if it helps at all with my many problems this PC seems to be having !!!
thanks in advance if it work …

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Denny June 25, 2009 9:19 pm

One of my critical hard drives has a major problem. After the machine locked up, I had to power off with Windows still running. Now, when it comes up, it won’t complete booting IF this drive is connected. I have to disconnect it until Windows boots, then connect it (it is hot-swappable).

After it is connected, the hard drive light stays on solid for several minutes. After it finally goes off, the drive is not accessable. It have a drive letter, but when I connect on it, it shows nothing. I was able to use a recovery program to copy most files to a good drive. I then did WDC diagnostics and it “fixed” several bad sectors.

Any suggestions on fixing the drive so I don’t loose the data that I couldn’t recover already? Norton Disk Doctor won’t even see the drive. Again, the recover program got a lot of stuff off of it. That makes me think that the FAT and pointers have a problem.

Regards, Denny.

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