Bit of a problem.

tidusjar · 17 Oct 2011 at 00:15

Well the otherday I formatted my drive and moved all of my media onto there. Now when i double click the drive it keeps poping up:

Now also when i right click it appears "Install or run program from your media"

This is all that is in the drive

I don't really want to re-format the drive again.

Surveyor · 17 Oct 2011 at 00:17

What exactly do you mean by "media" and how did you move it?

tidusjar · 17 Oct 2011 at 00:18

Copyed from old drive and pasted into new. Films/Music.

Surveyor · 17 Oct 2011 at 00:38

So you can't open the media folder?

tidusjar · 17 Oct 2011 at 00:53

Yeah i can open everything but its a bit annoying having to right click the drive and press open instead of double clicking. Thought someone may of knew

Surveyor · 17 Oct 2011 at 01:08

One possible solution.

Check in the root of C: for a file named autorun.inf (you probably want to make sure you have your folder options set to show hidden and system files.) If found, rename it to disguise it, reboot, and see if things work better.

Something like this could potentially be caused by a virus so I suggest you scan your PC for viruses as well.

Edit

See the post below.

feck199 · 17 Oct 2011 at 01:17

The autorun.inf was a good suggestion, but it wouldn't be on your C: drive if its affecting your G: drive, so check the root of G:

Also, not really a fix as such, but you can right click on My Computer, click Manage, Access the disk service and change the drive letter. Just to see if this has any effect.

Surveyor · 17 Oct 2011 at 02:02

feck199 said:
The autorun.inf was a good suggestion, but it wouldn't be on your C: drive if its affecting your G: drive, so check the root of G:

Perhaps I was half right then

I'd got it in my head that autorun.inf was a system file and not stored on individual drives.

tidusjar · 17 Oct 2011 at 06:55

Surveyor said:
One possible solution.

Check in the root of C: for a file named autorun.inf (you probably want to make sure you have your folder options set to show hidden and system files.) If found, rename it to disguise it, reboot, and see if things work better.

Something like this could potentially be caused by a virus so I suggest you scan your PC for viruses as well.

Edit

See the post below.

Couldn't find a autorun.inf and i have 100% no viruses.

feck199 said:
The autorun.inf was a good suggestion, but it wouldn't be on your C: drive if its affecting your G: drive, so check the root of G:

Also, not really a fix as such, but you can right click on My Computer, click Manage, Access the disk service and change the drive letter. Just to see if this has any effect.

But changing the letter of the drive worked!

Thanks a lot!

Surveyor · 17 Oct 2011 at 08:24

I'm glad it was an easy fix.

Another piece of information to store away for future use.