C drive mislabeled

[E. Brad Meyer]

I have a small but vexing problem. I ran a presentation
from a CD-ROM (on the history of Boston's Scollay Square)
and somehow my C: drive has been relabeled. When I click
on My Computer, instead of a disk drive icon next to C: I
see the logo associated with the history program, and when
I double click on C:, instead of seeing the contents of the
drive, the program runs. If I remove the associated .EXE
file from the C:\ directory I just get a screen that asks
me where it should look for the file. I have tried
installing and then uninstalling the program from the CD,
with no change.

I can right click on the drive icon and click Open to see
the contents of C:\, so I'm not seriously inconvenienced.
I can use Explorer to display the contents in the normal
way (but explorer also shows the incorrect icon for the
drive). Everything in the device manager (including the
drive logo) appears normal.

How do I convince Windows XP that C: is my main hard drive,
not a CD-ROM with an autorun feature? Thanks for any tips.
Replies copied to my email address will reach me more
reliably. -- E. Brad Meyer

 

[Menno Hershberger]

I have a small but vexing problem. I ran a presentation
from a CD-ROM (on the history of Boston's Scollay Square)
and somehow my C: drive has been relabeled. When I click
on My Computer, instead of a disk drive icon next to C: I
see the logo associated with the history program, and when
I double click on C:, instead of seeing the contents of the
drive, the program runs. If I remove the associated .EXE
file from the C:\ directory I just get a screen that asks
me where it should look for the file. I have tried
installing and then uninstalling the program from the CD,
with no change.

Check in your C:\ root firectory for a file called "autorun.inf". If
it's there, delete it. That would be the culprit.

 

[Guest]

Check in your C:\ root firectory for a file called "autorun.inf". If
it's there, delete it. That would be the culprit.
--

Thanks! I thought I had tried that before without success,
but when I moved the autorun file out onto the desktop just
now and clicked on the drive icon, the contents were
displayed normally.

The drive (when viewed by clicking on "My Computer" or
through Explorer) still has the little maple leaf logo
instead of the icon for a disk drive, and I'd love to be
able to change that, but functionally things are fine now.

Do you know how to access that little icon? -- E. Brad

P.S. Sorry about the slow reply when you were so fast. I
looked for my own message using SEARCH and find it listed
at 2:55 PM, which is when I wrote it, but for some reason
the board now lists it at 6:55 AM the same day, so it's
pages away from where it's supposed to be. Another of
life's little mysteries.

P.P.S. Or is there a way I haven't figured out to get from
the search screen to that point in the message board, or to
automatically pick up messages to me?

 

[Menno Hershberger]

Thanks! I thought I had tried that before without success,
but when I moved the autorun file out onto the desktop just
now and clicked on the drive icon, the contents were
displayed normally.

The drive (when viewed by clicking on "My Computer" or
through Explorer) still has the little maple leaf logo
instead of the icon for a disk drive, and I'd love to be
able to change that, but functionally things are fine now.

Do you know how to access that little icon? -- E. Brad

One of my CD drive icons shows up as a network drive. Clicking on it
gives me the CD. I've asked about that before in here but no one seemed
to be familiar with it, so I just let it be. It works alright.

P.S. Sorry about the slow reply when you were so fast. I
looked for my own message using SEARCH and find it listed
at 2:55 PM, which is when I wrote it, but for some reason
the board now lists it at 6:55 AM the same day, so it's
pages away from where it's supposed to be. Another of
life's little mysteries.

P.P.S. Or is there a way I haven't figured out to get from
the search screen to that point in the message board, or to
automatically pick up messages to me?

Can't help you on that either... I use X-News. If there is a reply to
one of my messages when I open it, it tags it.