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Resolved icon either missing or corrupted

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by TerryFox, 2012/06/04.

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    Hi ... I have a drive missing it icon , Everything else with the drive is good. I have data on the drive , which I am able to view and use . I even have done a reformat on the drive thinking afterwards it would be ok but, no go . My C drive is also fine, no problems there . Everything is clean no viruses . Its XP Pro sp3 ... Any idea how to fix it ? Thanks
     

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    Thanks for that link Evan Omo but I'm afraid that doesn't work for my system . I have done a search on Google for my problem and I already try what you posted but it doesn't apply here and I notice they mention it for just the c drive , my case is the other drive . I have try almost everything that Google search came up with no luck ... In the end nothing seem to work so I end up just formatting the whole drive . Everything now is good ...
     
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    So is this issue resolved then or is the icon still missing?
     
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    I thought it was resolved after what I done but today I just notice its not and its back again . Also in safe mode the icon show to be good , I am an odd with this one
     
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    When you navigated to the following registry key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorere\DriveIcons\C\DefaultIcon

    Did you change the letter C to the letter X since that is the letter of the drive that has the missing icon?
     
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    This is were the problem is with that , I don't have that registry key . I got everything up until Explorer but no DriveIcons .
     

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    Ok try this. Open the Registry Editor again and navigate to the following registry key,
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\DefaultIcon

    Make sure the DefaultIcon registry key has a data value of the following path, %SystemRoot%\System32\shell32.dll,8

    See if that works.
     
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    I have that there already , exactly as above
     
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    Thanks for that suggestion but that didn't work either ...
     
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    Try this. Click Start< My Computer and double click on the harddrive with the missing icon. You should now be in the X:\ directory. Look for and delete if found the desktop.ini and delete the autorun.inf file.

    You may have to show hidden files and folders and unhide any protected operating system files to see those two files on the harddrive. You can do this by clicking Tools< Folder Options and selecting the View Tab in the My Computer window. When done reboot the computer and see if that works.
     
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    Okay, I believe you have done it , thanks ... I only had the autorun.inf file but once I deleted it and restart the comp the icon came back . So , so far it's looking good ... Thank you Evan Omo ... I will wait another day before I click resolved ....
     
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    Ok great. :) Lets hope that fix worked.
     
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