Help! My hard drive icon is now a piece of paper

[frankpel]

I don't know what happened. But if you read my last post, I had to reboot my system while downloading a bunch of stuff cause of a lock up from low system resources. Now when I open my computer, the C drive does not have that little hardware icon, it looks like a piece of paper with the letter A in the lower right hand corner. I have a second and third hard drive. They appear normal. What could have happened? Everything is working, but I'm afraid I may be in for trouble. Frank

[KAknight]

Can you still access the drive and have you rebooted since? You also might want to hit F5 a couple of time while you have My Computer open.

[Sterling_Aug]

Right click on the drive and select properties. The bottom button is Change Icon.

[Fingers]

I'd say F5 (refresh), but if the two previous answers don't work, look here;

Q132668 - Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q132/6/68.asp)

[KAknight]

Sterling_Aug what OS are you running that will allow you to change the icon of a drive your way?

[Imperion1]

Another idea is to install Tweakui. There is an option in there to repair icons.

[frankpel]

I ran tweakui and that seemed to do it. By the way there is no change icon button on my ver of win98se. Frank

[mowtown75]

Great stuff, I am also running windows 98se.

I just installed this os onto a new p4, and the problem was there on first boot.

I will try editing the registry first, then the application suggested.

Thanks guys for all the advice, I did a search and came straight here for what I needed.

I will let you know how I go:)