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re: unable to open hard drive
Saturday, June 9, 2007 at 7:38 am
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Posted by Andrew Mark Smith (1 messages posted)


i had the same problam with a windows xp pro computer i found if you open the drive in explorer open tools folder options, view, and select show hiden files and untick hide protected operating system files a small file shows named autorun.exe i opended it with note pad and this was one of the files it pointed to SysAuto.exe i deleted the autorun file and ran regedit32 and removed all instances of SysAuto.exe i rebooted and evey thing was normal i hope this helps andy


On Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 5:49 am, tranzhuman wrote:
>P.S : If the partition with the OS is corrupt then you must perform a clean reinstall
>of windows making sure that this partition undergoes a full format.
>
>This method does work for USB drives as well. Just make sure that you do a full format
>rather than a quick format.
>
>
>


Written in response to:
re: unable to open hard drive (tranzhuman: Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 5:49 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: unable to open hard drive (M Chau: Sunday, June 24, 2007 at 3:31 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-unable to open hard drive (saqib`: Wed, Mar 7, 2007, 6:55 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (TOASTER: Wed, Mar 7, 2007, 7:28 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (saqib`: Wed, Mar 7, 2007, 8:55 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (Toaster: Wed, Mar 7, 2007, 12:42 pm)
*re: unable to open hard drive (Andy Smith: Fri, Mar 9, 2007, 6:17 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (tranzhuman: Sat, May 26, 2007, 5:34 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (tranzhuman: Sat, May 26, 2007, 5:49 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (Andrew Mark Smith: Sat, Jun 9, 2007, 7:38 am)
-re: unable to open hard drive (M Chau: Sun, Jun 24, 2007, 3:31 am)
*re: unable to open hard drive (Lalu Lonappan: Tue, Dec 25, 2007, 2:21 am)
*Unable to open hard drives (pratik bhatt: Tue, Dec 25, 2007, 11:02 pm)
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