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Unable to open my D Drive

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by swyatt88

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I am not computer savvy at all. When I try to open my D Drive it asks me 'to choose the program I want to use to open this file'

I don't understand why my pc all of a sudden is treating my drive as a file? What do I do to fix this?

It is not that I can't open my disc drive(that is my e drive) My D Drive is acting as a hard disc which has 200gb of storage space on it, I can't access my files which I have saved there, movies etc.

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by oh smeg

As for the Computer treating your Drive as a File it isn't all it is asking you to do is to select a Program to Open this File Type with. All you should need do is chose the Cancel Option and then Left Click on the Optical Drive in My Computer.

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by mjd420nova

Located on the front panel of the drive should be a small hole, straighten a paper clip and insert it in the hole while the unit is powered up. This is a manual override of the rest of the electronics and the drive door should open if the unit has any power at all. Then you can check to see if you left a disk in the drive.

by thumbsup2

So, now it sounds as if you either have one hard drive partitioned into two (C & D), or you physically have two drives. Is this "D" drive an external one plugged into a USB caddy, or is it internal?

Also, what operating system are you running? What anti-virus software are you running? How long has it been since you ran a full system scan?

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