why it look like this ??!

[Abdullatif]

hello guys,

 

i have bought a new hdd 2tb and i can use it without any problem but why when i go to disk manager i got that the dive is not activated i can't active it..

 

and why the icon look like this

 

[imreloadin]

5 minutes ago, Abdullatif said:

hello guys,

 

i have bought a new hdd 2tb and i can use it without any problem but why when i go to disk manager i got that the dive is not activated i can't active it..

 

and why the icon look like this

 

How do you have it connected? Through SATA, USB, etc?

[Abdullatif]

4 hours ago, imreloadin said:

How do you have it connected? Through SATA, USB, etc?

Sata Cable

[dlink377]

Can you use the hard disk without problem?

 

When I see my disk management, I also don't find any active word, I think it is normal.

[Abdullatif]

On June 25, 2016 at 3:33 PM, dlink377 said:

Can you use the hard disk without problem?

 

When I see my disk management, I also don't find any active word, I think it is normal.

Yes i can use it but i hate the icon little bit ;(

[brwainer]

"Active" is a flag that your BIOS checks to see whether there is an OS installed on the drive. To get rid of the icon, you'll have to change the Explorer preferences to show hidden files (and possibly system files too) and delete Autorun.inf from the root directory. Or just format the partition.

[Abdullatif]

On 6/27/2016 at 7:39 AM, brwainer said:

"Active" is a flag that your BIOS checks to see whether there is an OS installed on the drive. To get rid of the icon, you'll have to change the Explorer preferences to show hidden files (and possibly system files too) and delete Autorun.inf from the root directory. Or just format the partition.

i have searched for autorun.inf but i didn't find it i even enable the hidden files on everything but i didn't find it in C drive which my windows installed

[brwainer]

1 hour ago, Abdullatif said:

i have searched for autorun.inf but i didn't find it i even enable the hidden files on everything but i didn't find it in C drive which my windows installed

Each drive has it's own file. You should be look for it in D:

[Abdullatif]

1 hour ago, brwainer said:

Each drive has it's own file. You should be look for it in D:

i know i did too but where is it ? i didn't installed os on drive d or u can tell me where is it please

[brwainer]

8 hours ago, Abdullatif said:

i know i did too but where is it ? i didn't installed os on drive d or u can tell me where is it please

The *only* way you can have a custom icon on any drive is if the ico file and a properly formatted autorun.inf file are stored *on that drive* (specifically this is on a partition basis). If you are having trouble finding this file, then you can format the partition to definitely get rid of it. Note that once you do get rid of the file, you may need to log out of Windows and back in (or restart the computer) for it to update.

[Abdullatif]

6 hours ago, brwainer said:

The *only* way you can have a custom icon on any drive is if the ico file and a properly formatted autorun.inf file are stored *on that drive* (specifically this is on a partition basis). If you are having trouble finding this file, then you can format the partition to definitely get rid of it. Note that once you do get rid of the file, you may need to log out of Windows and back in (or restart the computer) for it to update.

i format it and restart nothing happends you know what i get sick of this i don't care now it just an icon right ?