Saturday, October 30, 2010

Unable to open C:/ or D:/ drive or any hard drive on double-click

     Sometimes it happens in windows XP, when you double-click on the drives icons or right click on the drive>>explore in My computer, the drive does not open.

Method 1:-

     It caused by the virus that infected your system and restricted the access to your drives. Normally, virus automatically creates a file named autorun-inf in the root directory of each drive. This autorun.inf file is a read only, hidden and a system file and the folder option is also disabled by the virus. This is deliberately done by the virus in order to protect itself.

      To solve this problem, just delete autorun.inf
1. Open Start>>Run and type cmd and press enter. This will open a command prompt window. On this command prompt window type the following steps.
2. type cd\
3. type attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf
4. type del autorun.inf
5. now type d: and press enter (for d: drive partition). Now repeat steps 3 and 4.
Similarly, repeat step 5 for all your hard disk partition.

Restart your system and your trouble will be fixed.


Method 2:-

1) Go to Start >>Run >> type gpedit.msc
2) Go to User Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> Windows Components >> Click on Windows Explorer.
3) Change the property of Prevent access to hard drive from My Computer to Disabled.

 4) Refresh and your issue is solved.

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