Can't see files on Hard Drive

[Broni]

No harm done, if you re-do.

[heinz57]

I am opening the NEW regfix. by double clicking and it gives the same error message  as before
so I copied all to Notepad to try and over write the reg but it won't let me either way.

Yet I can look at drive d and c with CD Burner XP.  These are both one physical drive.

[Broni]

Maybe you're doing something wrong.
Select all text inside the quote in my post #13, right click, and click "Copy".
Open Notepad, right click on  any empty space inside, and click "Paste".
Go File>Save As, and save it as regfix.reg to some known location, like desktop.
Now, close all windows, and double click on regfix.reg. Allow registry merge.
Restart computer.

[heinz57]

It starts with [HKEY ,   Not with  "Windows Registry Editor... " right ?  and ends with @="AppProperties" correct?
Any way I have done it with both beginnings and the left double click ONLY opens the wordpad OR the
Notepad file...Nothing else happens

[Broni]

No, a whole piece, starting with "Windows registry editor".

[heinz57]

Ok, Done double click still only opens Wordpad orNotepad; restarted...nada

[BC_Programmer]

save as .REG- sounds like it's being saved as .TXT or .REG.TXT

[heinz57]

So I right clicked on regfix and it was set to open  with Wordpad so I changed to registry editor That seemed to change the name regedit under the icon to regedit.reg but still can't open drive C etc

[Broni]

save as .REG- sounds like it's being saved as .TXT or .REG.TXT

You must be doing something wrong here.

[heinz57]

Who is this BC Programmer and where did the (capitalized) .REG come from? Ionly mentioned regfix.reg...
By the way I downloaded the file "drive" as requested earlier and it did incorporate itself into the registry

When you click on drive C or D (one partitioned Harddrive) it still opens the window  "open with..."

Some one must have an answer out there please

Heinz

[ALAN_BR]

Hi

Notepad has a pitfall with the "Save As" option :-

If you stipulate a file as regfix.reg,
Notepad will automatically create regfix.reg.TXT,
and to avoid this you should go below the File Name box
and use the "Save as Type" box,
and switch from the default "Text documents (*.txt)"
to the "All Files" mode.

When I right click on a file called regfix.reg.TXT, the "Open With" options include
Notepad and Wordpad, but do NOT include Registry Editor.

When I right click on a file regfix.REG, the "Open With" options include
Notepad and Registry Editor, but do NOT include Registry Editor.

Your final question was "(capitalized) .REG come from? "
Do not worry about it.
Capital letters were only used to emphasise 3 very significant characters.

Regards
Alan

[heinz57]

Txs Alan
The "save as type" change to "all files" allowed it resolve the registry.  Well done...

I restarted the computer but It still gives the "open with..." window when you try to see your files

Heinz

[Broni]

Try this: http://www.troublefixers.com/not-able-to-open-drives-on-hard-disk-by-double-click/

[heinz57]

Thanks Broni for sticking in there ...It was a virus

PROBLEM SOLVED

Heinz

[Broni]

Aha! Thanks for posting back