All drives are not open by double click & win [Solved]

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xpcman 7116Posts October 8, 2008Registration date May 21, 2012Last seen Nov 20, 2008 6:10pm GMT

Virus trouble

Sometimes it happens in windows XP that you are not able to open drives on your hard disk. When you double click on the drives icons or right click on the drive>>explore in My computer ,the drive does not open.

This problem is generally caused by most of the viruses which infect windows XP system. They block or restrict your access to any of the drives.

But don't worry this is not a big trouble it can be fixed easily.

Fix:

Normally when a virus infects a windows system which causes a drive opening problem, it 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. autorun.inf initiates all the activities that the virus performs when you try to open any drive.

You have to just delete this file and restart your system to correct this problem.

Follow the set of commands below to show and delete the 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.

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gautamchoudhary20 - Jan 13, 2009 11:20am GMT

Thanks for this
I have just tried this technique and my problem is solved, i am suffer this problem from last to month
once again thank you very very much

Rahul - Jan 29, 2009 2:28am GMT

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tua - Jan 29, 2009 3:52pm GMT

great solution......thanx man

Jay - Feb 2, 2009 6:14am GMT

THis is Really Helpful and it solved my problem. Thanx.

Nadeem - Feb 6, 2009 3:57am GMT

Thanks a Tonne! God bless you my friend!!!

Shoey - Feb 8, 2009 12:22pm GMT

i know you posted the cmd commands to over come the autorun.inf issues..but just saying thanks man, was a great help.

cheers!

tober - Feb 13, 2009 2:33pm GMT

xpcman, thank you so much!!!

rakesh kanna - Feb 28, 2009 4:21pm GMT

hello bro......i have done as u told but i cannot rectify my problem canu give me any other sources please......................

anuj - Mar 6, 2009 8:38am GMT

Hello,
My PC having three drive & it is not opening with double click & showing open with programm,even same error is showing when opening with explore.OS is XP. and operating system is installed in E drive. I hav read yur solution which u hav given. but whn i m giving the attrib command thn it shows the file cudnt found. plz tell me the solution ASAP.

Regards
Anuj
Configuration: Windows XP
Internet Explorer 6.0

Mahaveer - Mar 23, 2009 10:43am GMT

Thank you very much you solved my problem i was suffering from this past from 15Days it worked for me thank you very much

Ajay Saini - Apr 20, 2009 10:06pm BST

Thank you very much dear .
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aashsih - Jun 22, 2009 12:32pm BST

thank you

VJ Anand DBA - Jul 29, 2009 3:28pm BST

thanks for your valuable input . it helped me to sort out the problem.
Keep posting more tips

thanks
vj

ivanpopov- Oct 5, 2009 2:24pm BST

Hey, man, hello. I saw your advice. I want to ask you, what about the information in the broken hard drive. In my way D. Is the information and all files in D will be there after I restart the PC ?

Lee - Oct 27, 2009 6:42am GMT

Many thanks for the solution! It helped me a lot!

spoky2611 - Oct 28, 2009 11:56pm GMT

actualy nothing was happening,but........after the restart everything was great, exept some files that i see it for first time, but i think they were a "virus oil"

thank you very much

Raj - Nov 20, 2009 7:54am GMT

Hey Hi !!!!

thanks a lot. the above solution has helped me solve the problem.

keep the good work going.

Ajay - Nov 20, 2009 10:21am GMT

I have still problem of attrib-r-s or del autorun.inf command could not find it what i do pls tell.

deepthi - Dec 8, 2009 1:53am GMT

how should i delete autorun.inf

Itra - Jan 3, 2010 3:27am GMT

This is fantastic!!!!!!!u have helped me solve the pblm ...thanks a lot!!!!!!!!

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Prabhjot - Feb 20, 2010 3:27pm GMT

Thank u soooooooooo much ur suggestion toogood . it help me to del virus from my pc

musheer - Mar 21, 2010 9:14am GMT

Thanx dude for this solution it worked for my laptop

rohit - Apr 7, 2010 6:08am BST

it works..thanks

SuperB - Apr 14, 2010 7:10am BST

hey hi,
i read your post and type attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf , but it gives message that "autorun.inf" not found. What does it means, weather my PC drive does not open on double click..
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raphana - May 2, 2010 12:02pm BST

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subh - Jul 20, 2010 4:30am BST

Nice, It's working.
thanx.

spidy - Aug 12, 2010 2:55am BST

dude it aint workin over here and when i try to open the partition it gives me msg hello world
and anti virus didnt help i use AVG .

Charlie - Aug 22, 2010 1:15am BST

I used Microsoft Security Essentials and it worked! Try that, also are you using AVG Free?

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shariqDON 18Posts January 30, 2009Registration date Feb 1, 2009 8:07am GMT

Very simple . virus create some bad registry if you want to solve this problem then delet this registry

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2

delete all drive from here

jojo - Jun 10, 2009 6:27pm BST

hey dude,
we dont have to delete the drives here but delete the mountpoints2 itself, then only it will work.

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Roninz - May 9, 2010 3:30pm BST

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bros - Jun 16, 2010 7:24pm BST

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saju - Aug 4, 2010 9:14am BST

Thanks Raj Really its working

SwamiNath - Aug 27, 2010 8:08am BST

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sathi Jan 22, 2009 5:17am GMT

Hi,
Super. nice trick. thank you

zaq - Jan 23, 2009 10:15pm GMT

hi buddy thanx very-very -very much its working 100% without any problem. it save my importnat data to open
thanx once again itz a very good fix. awesome.thanx

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Syther Jan 26, 2009 2:27pm GMT

sir ur a genius thanks

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amit Jan 31, 2009 1:01pm GMT

Hello,
My PC having four drive & it is not opening with double click & showing open with programm,even same error is showing when opening with explore.OS is XP.

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Kizzo Apr 17, 2009 5:22am BST

Hi everyone, I have the same problem when I open My Computer then double click one of my drives (c or d) it opens up an image program (ACDseePro) instead of expolring it, I have to right-click then open or explore.
I have tried the command prompt ( autorun.info) but file was not found in any of the drives , I also tried gpedit.msc and enabled autoplay but it didn't work. Used Spybot serach&destroy, Flash-Disinfect, Disc-Heal, Fix-Drive and did a virus scan with NOD32 but nothing was found and the problem still persists!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please advice

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kigwi Jan 16, 2009 2:29pm GMT

thanks it worked for me! ^^

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JAMAICAN Mar 3, 2009 2:55pm GMT

Thanks alot Pal from all the way in Jamaica! Jah Guide...

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Nanda Mar 5, 2009 12:44am GMT

I tried attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf at the cmd prompt and then ran del autorun.inf. I have 4 drives and for 1 drive only del worked, for the rest there was no such file. On restarting the system I could not yet open the folders on all the drives. Then I did the download based on based on what Raj said from http://www.winhelponline.com/... Currently the folders are showing up. Thankyou all for all the help.
Which is a good antivirus software (free)? I have AVG currently installed.
Thanks

prak - Aug 14, 2009 4:12pm BST

i am even not able to open the command prompt neither any files.what should i do??

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zxcvb531 Jul 1, 2009 12:29am BST

Thanks it work fixall ,all others mention in this replies, didnt work for me.

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laddu Nov 28, 2009 7:55am GMT

I m unable to open my drives with double click on it nd its giving the msg open with.....
i tried the autorun delete option also but i typed attrib-r-h-s autorun.inf but it is not reconizing it . heilp me

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shahnawaz Jan 12, 2009 2:46pm GMT

Dear Sir
i tried your solution and it worked and i just want to thank you........
thank you very very much and God Bless U...................................

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dicetown Jan 12, 2009 7:35pm GMT

I have a simuliar problem, but can't type the command attrib -r-h-s autorun.inf ..my computer doesn't recogize it, I tried various other ways in format it, no luck. I have windows xop any ideas?

musheer - Mar 21, 2010 9:16am GMT

after typing -r give one space then repeat the same for -h and -s , mean give one space between all

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xpcman 7116Posts October 8, 2008Registration date May 21, 2012Last seen Jan 13, 2009 5:22pm GMT

First you type cmd and enter

Then type

attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf without a space between the minus sign and the following letter but a space before the minus sign - this makes the file visible and allows you to delete it later. If DOS returns "file not found" it means the autorun.inf file is not on that hard disk.

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Yesh - Feb 2, 2009 3:09am GMT

Thanx dude........
this trick has solved my problem.

vijay - Apr 18, 2010 2:50pm BST

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madhu Jan 14, 2009 10:48am GMT

hard disk drive is not open

muke - Feb 2, 2009 2:43am GMT

Virus trouble

Sometimes it happens in windows XP that you are not able to open drives on your hard disk. When you double click on the drives icons or right click on the drive>>explore in My computer ,the drive does not open.

This problem is generally caused by most of the viruses which infect windows XP system. They block or restrict your access to any of the drives.

But don't worry this is not a big trouble it can be fixed easily.

Fix:

Normally when a virus infects a windows system which causes a drive opening problem, it 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. autorun.inf initiates all the activities that the virus performs when you try to open any drive.

You have to just delete this file and restart your system to correct this problem.

Follow the set of commands below to show and delete the 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.

rgm - Feb 13, 2009 12:37am GMT

I use win xp pro. I had an autorun virus which blocked opening of the drives. I ran the program flash disinfector and the virus problem was solved. but from my dvd drives, no cd/dvd starts on its own unless click the dvd-drive icon. how can i get back the 'autorun'? i changed shell detection using gpedit.msc, enabled autorun from properties..nothing works. Can anybody help?

nagraj › muke - Feb 22, 2009 4:29am GMT

hai this is nag. iam suffering from this problem since a month. n finally solved my problem. thanx a lot yar.

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DCS Works Jan 29, 2009 4:08am GMT

thanks allot

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DaveBurn Jan 30, 2009 8:56pm GMT

Thanks for the info and solution that you have shared...
keep it up, more power and knowledge...

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rizwan Feb 5, 2009 3:38am GMT

Thank you so much for guide me

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Sunil Sep 3, 2009 11:01am BST

Thankyou boss my problem is now resolve

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