Cannot open local disk C: in Windows XP (after double click)
This morning I had to reformat and reinstall one of my office laptop due to virus. Only then, I realise that my flash drive was infected too and I used it to transfer some files to the laptop. After running the virus scan on both media, I notice that I cannot open the local disk C: (when double click) and a pop-up window with “Open with” appeared.
I went searching on the internet to find out the solutions and below is the remedy of the problem:
SOLUTION
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1. Enter command prompt on WIN XP. HOW?
Click Start > Run > CMD
2. Navigate to drive C: HOW?
type cd\
3. Type Dir /a
To show all files in root drive. Then identify the autorun.inf file (you may find other autorun-named files there. You this same method to get them out)
4. Type attrib autorun.inf
This will help you get the file attributes on the autorun.inf. Depending on the outcome
(which can be ash, i.e. Archived, 
5. Type attrib -a -s -h autorun.inf (assuming above result).
This will make the file a normal file
6. Type del autorun.inf
If you find other autorun-named files, do this to all. I wrote a program for this recently but haven’t gotten as yet to the net. Give a system restart and confirm.
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You can check the link to the solutions above here (http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/624141-solved-cannot-open-local-disk.html)
