Windows XP Thinks Hard Drive Is Removable

[Qest]

Perhaps someone here can help me to understand why my Quantum Fireball is being recognized as a removable drive. What I mean is that the click command is to AutoPlay instead of Open...I very much dislike this and would like to get it set to be Open instead like it should be. I have updated all my drivers and used windoctor and a few other diagnostic programs but everything says everything is fine...is there a way to adjust this setting?

This is on a windows XP Pro OS with a 1 gig processor
I am running 640 sdram all on a compaq presario 5000 and the drive is a 40gig drive.

Thanx in advance for any help you offer.

 

[bcastner]

Look in the root of the drive (d:\) for an autorun.inf file that go copied by mistake. There might be other autoplay files there as well. Delete them, or move them out of the root of the drive.

 

[Qest]

Now it says search... do you know why it would say search?

 

[czkjyg]

Forgive me for replying to this older post, but i recently encountered this same problem and found this post indexed by yahoo. This has happend to me twice now in the course of upgrading two machines to windows xp and installing new hard drives.

I personaly think "goback" was causing my problem in both cases as it was installed on both of the drives that i had problems with, even though i removed goback before upgrading.

The symptoms was, once xp was installed on the main (new) drive, it saw my secondary drive as removable and i was not able to explore the drive. It also failed to show up in the "MY Computer" list of drives.

To fix this, I booted off of a windows 98se bootdisk and changed to the drive giving me the problems. In my case it was C:
Its important to know what drive letter is assinged to the one thats giving you the problem. To make sure you can do a dir /p and browse the directories to be sure its the correct drive.

Once I was sure, I typed in fdisk /mbr and this fixed my problem in both cases without any data loss.

I hope this might help someone else in the future, thank you for allowing me to post. czkjyg