XP Pro thinks my drive is a file .. kind of.

[fibroptikl]

Three hard drives in question:

160
120
400

XP Pro was running on the 160GB. I installed Vista on a 120GB in March.

Now I am going to go back to XP Pro. I erased the 160GB from Disk Management. Then I went and took out the 120 and put in the 160GB.

XP installed fine. I attached my data drive, Seagate NL 35.1 400GB. I went to unmap it as my E:\ and make it D:\ (and make my DVD burner E:, instead of D. Basically switch the two.

I went and clicked remove to remove E: from my 400GB. I hit "Add" and select D: - what the DVD Burner used to be map to.

Then it brought up the following screen:

Then if I go to My Computer and click the D: drive, I get:

Any ideas what's causing this?

 

[Nenu]

Did you try "open folder to view files" ?

 

[fibroptikl]

I did, but I still get the second screenshot that I showed.

 

[horndog]

did you even create a partition on the drive? Did you format it?

 

[fibroptikl]

It is my data drive - it has data on it.

I can get the data, I can see it. I can go to Start --> Run, and do D:\ and see it. I can even right-click the icon in My Computer and hit "Explore" and still get it.

If I double click the icon, it shows the second screenshot.

 

[zacdl]

I've never seen that before...

What kind of files are on it? Misc?

 

[fibroptikl]

Just work files.

There is only one folder in the root of the drive called "data" - which is where my data goes to be organized. Otherwise it just stays in the root of the drive.

 

[jchen012]

Did you try going to start --> run, and running this command?

regsvr32 /i shell32.dll

 

[fibroptikl]

That fixed it.

Thanks.

 

[Nenu]

lol that made me laugh, havent seen that one before, nice one jchen012