Lost Icon

[NewMoire]

Hi

Does anyone out there know how to correct a fault I have with an local drive (hard disk) icon?

I recently had to do a restall of my Windows XP Pro 64bit edition, but after clicking on MyComputer, my hard drive icon appears as a sheet of paper with a fold in the top right hand corner.

My efforts have been to go to regedit, and into folder options, but with no luck. Hence request to those of you out there who have my experience and knowledge than I.

Please help!

Regards

 

[vacunita]

if you double click it does it open?

Check to see if there is a desktop.ini file in the root of the drive. If there is delete it.

What happens if you try to go into Tools->Folder Options-> File types.
Select the Drive entry, and click on advanced?


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[electronicsfreak]

Use tweakui and have it repair icons. Click on repair on the bottom of tweakui, then click repair now.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

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[NewMoire]

Hi Vacunita

Thanks for your reply.

When I double click I can open up the drive and I can access all the folders as normal. It is just the icon that is incorrect, and what I need to change.

Yes, as I mentioned earlier, I did go into Folder Options, and File Types, but this made no difference whatsoever.

Hi electronicfreak

I did download the file, and the file wouldn't run. A message appeared as follows (see attactment)

Any suggestions???

K.R.

 

[BadBigBen]

go to the following website and navigate down to # 119 Change Hard Drive Icons, click on it - it will download a VBS script, execute that script and leave the corresponding box (input option) blank, reboot and it the icons should be reset to the original, if not run it once more and again leave the box blank...

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

PS: to add to Vacunitas post, if you have a file called AUTORUN.INF on the ROOT of the HDD, these too can change the ICON of the drive in question, delete it and all should be set back to normal...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[NewMoire]

Hi BadBigBen

Thanks for all your help!!!

The solution was removing the Autorun.inf and then rebooting the machine.

K.R.

Andy

 

[BadBigBen]

Glad that I was of help... and thanx for posting back what had helped to alleviate the problem...



Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."