DRIVES ARE NOT OPENING ON DOUBLE CLICK / CAN NOT FIND COPY.EXE

Many of us might have experienced the DOUBLE CLICK trouble. Usually when you double click on any Drives, they open and show the file contents. But in some cases the machine hang up or give an error message like “Can not find Copy.exe” or “VB Script Error” or like wise messages. In most cases one would be able to Right Click on the drive and Explore the drive contents. But in some cases this also won’t work.

Don’t worry !!!!. This is the strong evidence of an infection in your PC or you were having an infection which was quarantined/ deleted by your Anti virus. In any case, have a complete scan of your PC with the latest Anti Virus Updates. Still the problem persists ?

Go to Run and type X:\autorun.inf and enter, where ‘X’ is the drive letter which is suffering from this problem. (If the problem is with D Drive- type D:\autorun.inf). A text file appears usually with two or three lines mentioning ‘Copy.exe’ or there might be an ocean of letters which gives no meaning to the human brain. Select the entire content of this file and delete it. Now close the empty file and it will ask for saving changes. Click YES and if your YES is accepted by the PC, your problem is solved. Simply restart your machine and double click with full confidence to find your drive opens without any tussle.

And if your YES is not accepted by the PC and it says that the file is read-only or hidden and doesn’t permit you to save the file or prompts for saving it into another location or on another file name, press CANCEL and close the file again and Click NO when prompted to save.
Now we have to take a complete turn around. First of all we must make a RECOVERY CONSOLE for Windows which is inbuilt in the Installation CD's i386 Folder..

To make the RECOVERY CONSOLE, insert the WINDOWS XP /WINDOWS 2003 CD into your CD Drive. Go to RUN and type X:\i386\winnt32 /cmdcons and press Enter. (Where ‘X’ is the Drive letter of your CD Drive.). Click next, next in the following windows and Cancel the Update Now message. Finally you reach a Completion screen and press OK (FINISH). The details are avilable at http://santhosh.themebin.com/blog/tutorials/using-recovery-console-in-xp/

Now restart your PC and you will get a BOOT MENU with two options (Provided you have only one OS loaded), One will be your Microsoft Windows XP and other will be Microsoft Windows Recovery Console. With the down arrow key select Recovery Console and press enter. You will enter into the Black Background of Recovery console. After loading the necessary services and drivers the console will ask you to select your Windows OS. (Normally you will have to enter ‘1’ provided your Windows is installed in C drive. Now the console will prompt for Administrator Password and after giving the password you will be provided with a prompt, C:\WINDOWS. Type CD \ and enter to go to the Root C.

On the C:\ type DIR and enter
You will get a list of all the files and folders of C Drive. Here the important thing to notice is that in front of some files it will be indicated S, R, H, SHR. These are the file attributes. ‘S’ indicate System file, ‘R’ indicates Read Only files and ‘H’ indicates hidden files. ‘SHR’ means a file with attributes System, Read-Only and Hidden. A file with these attributes can not be deleted or edited till the attributes are removed.

Look for a file named autorun.inf. This file will be prefixed with attributes SHR. Type attrib –SHR autorun.inf (note the space after attrib) and enter to remove the attributes. Now you can delete the autorun.inf by giving command del autorun.inf

Also look for a file with .exe extension in a range of 1400KB size (names may vary like mvo.exe, hffud.exe, vb.exe) with SHR attributes. Remove attributes and delete the file in the same manner as you removed autorun.inf. Repeat this procedure in all the infected drives and after finishing all, type EXIT and enter to restart your PC. See you have removed the DOUBLE CLICK TROUBLE successfully.

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