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by edpcs

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Windows XP Home Edition. In My Computer, two of the three hard drives do not show the standard icon. They show an icon for an Autorun file on the root of that drive. Thus, when I click on that icon, it tries to run the file instead of opening a window showing the contents of the drive. The only way I can open the drive from My Computer is to right-click and select Explore. I have deleted the Autorun files. How can I get this back to the standard icon and operation?

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by curacao_dejavu

i suggest:
first go to www.windowsupdate.com and update the operating system. (I can not find anything regarding your systems in the ms kb)
next see if there are additinal .inf files in the root of the harddisk.
and next in device maneger uninstall the harddisk and reboot and let windows redetect the harddisk again. (you wont loose information)

by thechas

I don't have access to a PC with XP Home on it.

On XP Pro, I opened Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Manager.

Right click on the logical drive (partition) that you wish to change.
Select Change Drive letter and Paths.
Change the drive to a different unused drive letter.
It should change to the standard drive icon.

After a re-boot, change the drives back to the letter you desire.

Chas

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