External Drive Anomalies

Hi,

I have bought my third portable USB external hard drive
but, unlike the previous two which seemed to install themselves
completely automatically, this one seems to have tripped up slightly
somewhere.

The drive works, and I can read and write to it as normal.

The thing is, whereas all my other drives, including my local disk
(C, show up with a proper 'drive' icon, this one appears with the
generic Windows 'unknown program' icon. (The one that looks like a piece
of paper with the top right corner folded over and a window with six
little coloured icons inside it.)

Is there any way in Windows to 'force' the proper icon onto the drive?

The generic icon is showing for the drive in Windows Explorer, and also
in the 'My Computer' window.

http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii281/meehan-mydog/?action=view&cur...t=mycom

When I've tried updating the driver for it, however, the proper drive
icon _does_ appear on all its Properties>Hardware dialogue boxes.

While the icon is just an aesthetic thing, another 'blip', which is more
annoying, is that when I connect my drive, it throws up a 'What do you
want Windows to do?' dialogue box. That is fair enough, but the 'always do
the selected action' check-box is greyed-out. I would like to tell it to
do nothing when I connect it, like my other two, but I don't seem to
have that option with this one. I suspect that the icon fault and this
one are connected somehow.

I'm running Win XP Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 3.

Thanks in advance,
Meehan Mydog
Cheshire, UK

If there is an Autorun.inf file in the drive's root directory delete it.

John

Meehan Mydog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have bought my third portable USB external hard drive
> but, unlike the previous two which seemed to install themselves
> completely automatically, this one seems to have tripped up slightly
> somewhere.
>
> The drive works, and I can read and write to it as normal.
>
> The thing is, whereas all my other drives, including my local disk
> (C, show up with a proper 'drive' icon, this one appears with the
> generic Windows 'unknown program' icon. (The one that looks like a piece
> of paper with the top right corner folded over and a window with six
> little coloured icons inside it.)
>
> Is there any way in Windows to 'force' the proper icon onto the drive?
>
> The generic icon is showing for the drive in Windows Explorer, and also
> in the 'My Computer' window.
>
> http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii281/meehan-mydog/?action=view&cur...t=mycom
>
>
> When I've tried updating the driver for it, however, the proper drive
> icon _does_ appear on all its Properties>Hardware dialogue boxes.
>
> While the icon is just an aesthetic thing, another 'blip', which is more
> annoying, is that when I connect my drive, it throws up a 'What do you
> want Windows to do?' dialogue box. That is fair enough, but the 'always do
> the selected action' check-box is greyed-out. I would like to tell it to
> do nothing when I connect it, like my other two, but I don't seem to
> have that option with this one. I suspect that the icon fault and this
> one are connected somehow.
>
> I'm running Win XP Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 3.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Meehan Mydog
> Cheshire, UK
>
>