Lost drive icon.

[Dexahol]

I just recently disconnected one of my drives. After I reconnected it, it lost its icon:



Note that drives C and E are one drive, D and F another. D and F are the one I disconnected. F lost its icon. Oddly enough, so did my CD drive, (G), which appears like the F drive, when this happened.

Any ideas on how to restore the proper icons? (And why it happened to begin with?)

Thanks all. Dex

Edit: I just noticed that drives F, G, H, I, K, and L all lost their icons. For some reason, J kept its icon. This is weird.
(G is the other CD rom drive.)

[104456]

How did you disconnect them and can you now still access the drives/partitions ?

[Dexahol]

I had an old drive lying around. So, I disconnected the ribbon cable and power connector to my second drive, (D & F), and connected the old one. After doing that, I reconnected my secondary drive, (ribbon and power), just like it was to begin with.

All the data is there like normal and it works just fine. Its just the icon on the F drive thats askew.

[Dexahol]

Ok . . . problem solved! Here's what I did, although, I still don't understand what, or why, it happened.

Here's what they look like now:



I went into the registry, to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\DriveIcons

And there went to each drive. The drives with proper icons had no value set under DefaultIcon. The drives with the "lost" icon had: C:\Windows\shutdownaware.exe, n, where n was a number from 2 to 5.

By deleteing all those string values, all icons returned to normal.

Now I just have to figure out what shutdownaware.exe is, and why it changed my icons. (btw - shutdownaware.exe is not on my computer.)