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Pen Drive does not open - [Fix]

It is not very uncommon to get an “Open with” dialog on opening the pen drives. Often it is understood that this is due to a virus or an spyware. Most of the times it is true, but sometimes a simple error in the autorun.inf (hidden inside the pen-drive) file can also cause this problem. Virus or not, lets see what is the easiest solution.

1) Goto Run (Start»Run OR Win Key + R)

2) Type cmd and Ok

3)Change the drive to pen-drive location (Drive letter followed by colon e.g. N:)

4) Type: attrib to confirm if autorun.inf file is present there

5) Type: attrib -S -H -R autorun.inf

6) Type: del autorun.inf

7) Now simply go and rename the original pen-drive label in My Computer.

That’s it! The Pen-drive will start opening like before. N-Joy!