HELP ? Corrupt Drive Icon killing me... ARGH !

[AZ_Guy]

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Windows XP Pro... Nothing special, etc. I'm the administrator, etc,
blah blah blah...

In "My Computer", all drives list normally EXCEPT one partition on my
main drive.

Drive has 4 NTFS primary partitions. C, D, and E part's look fine,
normal hard drive icon. F part. does not. Shows windows default
"unknown file type" icon.


This has driven me to the brink of freakin insanity,


I've tried to use the typical icon changer programs, like ActiveIcons,
and others, to no avail. I've turned off DEP (data execution
protection), to stop windows from stopping ME from changing the damned
icon, thinking it might protect shell32.dll (the icon cache file) and
still no luck.

Nothing I can think of will get the default hard drive icon back.

Any suggestions would be REALLY great right about now.


I'm at my wits end...


I REALLY don't want to move almost 50GB's of files stored just to delete
the partition and recreate it so this stupid icon will get fixed.

Does ANYONE know what might have caused this ? I believe it started
after a power failure shut the machine off while running. Beyond that,
I haven't got a clue.


The drive functions normally in almost every other way. Reads, writes,
all fine. Checkdisk turns up nothing. The ONLY other weird thing that
has cropped up is that when going to open a drive from my computer,
instead of the drive opening in the same window, it opens in a new one.
This drives me up a f*****g wall as well.

I've changed the setting in folder options back and forth from 'same
window' to 'new window' numerous times now and still, the thing hates
me.


Please... Someone... Help ??


Thanks,

AZ Guy

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

See if there is a file named autorun.inf in F:\ drive. If so, delete that
file and reboot.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com



Any help would be very much appreciated.

Windows XP Pro... Nothing special, etc. I'm the administrator, etc,
blah blah blah...

In "My Computer", all drives list normally EXCEPT one partition on my
main drive.

Drive has 4 NTFS primary partitions. C, D, and E part's look fine,
normal hard drive icon. F part. does not. Shows windows default
"unknown file type" icon.


This has driven me to the brink of freakin insanity,


I've tried to use the typical icon changer programs, like ActiveIcons,
and others, to no avail. I've turned off DEP (data execution
protection), to stop windows from stopping ME from changing the damned
icon, thinking it might protect shell32.dll (the icon cache file) and
still no luck.

Nothing I can think of will get the default hard drive icon back.

Any suggestions would be REALLY great right about now.


I'm at my wits end...


I REALLY don't want to move almost 50GB's of files stored just to delete
the partition and recreate it so this stupid icon will get fixed.

Does ANYONE know what might have caused this ? I believe it started
after a power failure shut the machine off while running. Beyond that,
I haven't got a clue.


The drive functions normally in almost every other way. Reads, writes,
all fine. Checkdisk turns up nothing. The ONLY other weird thing that
has cropped up is that when going to open a drive from my computer,
instead of the drive opening in the same window, it opens in a new one.
This drives me up a f*****g wall as well.

I've changed the setting in folder options back and forth from 'same
window' to 'new window' numerous times now and still, the thing hates
me.


Please... Someone... Help ??


Thanks,

AZ Guy

 

[AZ_Guy]

Greetings and thanks for the reply.

Indeed there was an autorun.inf on the drive. Been wracking my brain to
try and figure out how it GOT there too. Only thing I can think of is a
sloppy copy/paste when I was working on an autoboot CD image a while
back.

Thank you ! That got rid of the damned icon.

Only problem left now is the drives STILL open in a new folder, from My
Computer.

Every drive does this. It's a small matter, I know, but it's one of
those little things in life that just drive you batty.

Nothing I can think of will fix it. Like before, changing it in folder
options won't, TweakUI does nothing, etc.

Any suggestions ?


Again, thank you for the reply. I really appreciate it.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Thank you ! That got rid of the damned icon.

You're welcome!

Apply the REG fix available here:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/samewindow.htm

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Greetings and thanks for the reply.

Indeed there was an autorun.inf on the drive. Been wracking my brain to
try and figure out how it GOT there too. Only thing I can think of is a
sloppy copy/paste when I was working on an autoboot CD image a while
back.

Thank you ! That got rid of the damned icon.

Only problem left now is the drives STILL open in a new folder, from My
Computer.

Every drive does this. It's a small matter, I know, but it's one of
those little things in life that just drive you batty.

Nothing I can think of will fix it. Like before, changing it in folder
options won't, TweakUI does nothing, etc.

Any suggestions ?


Again, thank you for the reply. I really appreciate it.

 

[AZ_Guy]

Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU !

That did the trick. I guess one of those reg values were corrupted
somehow.

Ohh, and thank you again !

p.s. your site is excellent and has been added to my list of "stupid
windows problem" fix-em-up sites !

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Glad that helped, AZ_Guy!
windows problem" fix-em-up sites !

Thanks

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU !

That did the trick. I guess one of those reg values were corrupted
somehow.

Ohh, and thank you again !

p.s. your site is excellent and has been added to my list of "stupid
windows problem" fix-em-up sites !