When you right-click on a drive letter in "My Computer", the first choice is supposed to be "Explore" (and it's supposed to be bold) and the second one is supposed to be "Open". If it's not that, a virus most likely changed something in the registry. On my laptop, I had a virus change something like that. It made the C drive detected as an external drive (like a USB thumb drive) or CD drive. I think the virus made it like that so that the drive would execute autorun when you double-clicked the drive letter and autorun would run the virus.
Try a free antivirus like Avira. It should solve the virus problem. After that, you might have to manually edit the registry to get your drive back. That's what I did on my laptop.
Problem with local disk
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Re: Problem with local disk
You are on XP I assume? I would try booting up in safe mode and see if there is still a problem. You just need to hit the F8 while the computer is booting up. From there I would run a virus-scan just like Tril said. If that doesn't work then try to explain better when the problem is (with screen-shots if necessary). Its hard to understand whats going on.
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Re: Problem with local disk
You may want to hold off on tinkering with the registry unless you know what you are doing.allenborder wrote:Hello to all....
I have one problem. In "My Computer" when i am trying to access my local disk drive it show's me a window where i have to chose some program.
This disk drive is named C:\ and there is also installed all the programs a windows also. I can access this drive through other directories but not directly.
You can try resetting Windows permissions. There's a utility in http://support.microsoft.com/fixit" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; or search their site.
Also use a proper malware cleaner. Not all AV software can detect malware properly or at all.