Hard drive icon wrong

[Mary]

If I open Windows Explorer the icon for one of my hard drives is
wrong.

The standard hard drive icon has been replaced by the default file
type. My other 2 hard drives (I actually have one hard drive
partitioned into 3) have the correct icon.

I can see no option to change the icons.

How can I get the correct one back.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Mary,

Check your root directory for an autorun.inf. If found, delete it.

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[Mary]

No autorun.inf in root directory.

Any other ideas??

Thanks

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Mary,

Enable Windows to Show all files and then locate the file Autorun.inf and
delete it from the root directory. Restart Windows. If that does not help,
try this:

1. Open Regedit and navigate to the following location:

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\<drive>]

2. After backing up the key, delete the <drive> key from the registry.

3. Navigate to the following key, backup and delete the <drive> key:

[HKCR\Applications\explorer.exe\Drives\<drive>]

4. Close Registry Editor and restart Windows

NOTE: Where <drive> is the actual drive-letter (say D:\ )