Cannot open my c drive?

i cannot open my c drive when i double click. I also connot open it when i right click and choose whether autorun, explore or open. When i scan with anti virus it says error opening file. What can i do except format my computer ?

Cannot open my c drive?
sounds like you got a virus, try to delete it with software before you reformat.
Reply:in your address bar type this:


c:\





if you entered the drive, go to tools in the menu-%26gt;folder options-%26gt;view tab-%26gt;choose display hidden files and uncheck hide protected os files.





now if you find a file in drive c named autorun delete it.
Reply:Try attaching your hard drive to another computer and scanning it with anti virus and spyware software.
Reply:Hello,





(ANS) Your hard disk drive has a boot sector or boot record virus (infection). Infections of this type are designed too do exactly this mess up access to your data.





**YES! I completely agree with the second person who posted here, remove the drive in question and attached the HDD to another machine and then scan the drive with a good anti virus program such as FREE AVG anti virus (this is free-ware).





NOTE: If the machine in question is windows XP (or one that uses NTFS) then there are only a very few boot files that can be damaged. So your best option might be to replace the boot files for NT from either a clean machine thats running exactly the same version of windows or from the original CD.





**Formatting or Re-formatting the drive shouldn't be required, only if nothing else works and only as a total last resort.





**The boot files for windows XP are:-


boot.ini (this looks for your hard disk drives)


boot.bak


bootmgr


bootsect.bak


NTDETECT.COM (detects your hardware)


NTLDR.com (loads the OS)


NTUSER.DAT


config.sys


io.sys


autoexec.bat








Hope that helps?





Kind regards Ivan





(many years in computing).
Reply:On some occasions, this happens when you've installed something directly in C:\ and not a subdirectory of C:\.





I would suggest going back to a restore point.








Visit this web site and search for more information about restore points: http://wikihow.com/