Cannot Open C Drive

[harty001]

Just some clarification... is it your "C:" drive (Hard Disk Drive, or HDD) that you can't access or is it you CD drive? Also, it was asked earlier if you clicked on "Eject CD", but I didn't see any answer. If it is the CD drive, did you try this?

[contrex]

Just some clarification... is it your "C:" drive (Hard Disk Drive, or HDD) that you can't access or is it you CD drive? Also, it was asked earlier if you clicked on "Eject CD", but I didn't see any answer. If it is the CD drive, did you try this?

Tara, if you really mean your C:\ drive, you are quite sure there is no autorun.inf file in your C:\ folder? It may be hidden. This problem sounds just like that is the reason.

open a command window & type

cd c:\

and then do

dir

and then

dir /ah

and see if there is one there.

[tara0801]

when I type the dir and then the dir/ah I do see a autorun.inf file. I typed del autorun.inf, but it won't delete. How do I remove it.



Thanks so much.

[contrex]

when I type the dir and then the dir/ah I do see a autorun.inf file. I typed del autorun.inf, but it won't delete. How do I remove it.

If it shows up with dir /ah then it is a "hidden" file. You need to unhide it before it can be deleted.

Here is how...

open a command window & type

cd c:\

and then do

attrib autorun.inf -H


At this stage a plain

dir autorun.inf command should show it up

and then

del autorun.inf to get rid of it

That should do it...

[tara0801]

hello again.
when i dir /ah, i see an AutoRun.inf file
when I type attrib AutoRun.inf -H
is says not resetting system file

It does not let me delete it either.

What do you think? Any other way of deleting.

Thanks.

[contrex]

when I type attrib AutoRun.inf -H
is says not resetting system file

Sorry that's my fault I should have thought it might be marked as a system file.

type

C:\

then

attrib autorun.inf

you'll see something like this, maybe not all of these letters. You should definitely see an S, and maybe an H and an R at the left side.

A  SHR     C:\autorun.inf

If you see an S to the left type

attrib -S autorun.inf

then if you see an H type

attrib -H autorun.inf

and if you see an R type

attrib -R autorun.inf

The A does not matter if it is there. Remove it by the same method if you feel like it.

now if you do this

attrib autorun.inf

the letters apart from the A should have gone, and this should now work.

del autorun.inf

If all this doesn't work, try it in safe mode (where you press f8 as the PC starts up)

[tara0801]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

It works. I can now open my C drive thru My computer. You all have been a big help. I couldn't have done this without everyone's help.

[contrex]

Always nice to have a success. Good work, team.