Trouble:

Hello Readers, this is second part of our TroubleFixer of The Week series. The rules remain same as the previous contest.

Contest trouble of the week is :

My CD / DVD drive does not appear in My Computer with other drives. What could be the reason? How to fix this trouble?

So if you know the fix, leave it through a comment below. Waiting for your comments ( fixes )!

Updated on 12th July 2008:

Lets see the best fix.

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Trouble:

We have often received one common problem from many of the readers saying:

Whenever I double-click on any drive/folder in My Computer, a Search window opens 

This is one of the most annoying problem as per readers, problem as quite clear from the message mentioned above quote.

This type of problem normally occurs because some virus called ‘PET32.exe’ , or it can also occur due some other virus which disrupt the windows registry.

Lets see how can we fix this problem.

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Trouble:

We attach portable USB device like pen drive, memory cards and portable drives etc. on our computer to transfer files from/to your computer.

When you try to remove a USB pen-drive by using “Safely Remove Hardware > Safely remove USB Mass Storage device”  option, windows should stop all the read-write operations on the drive so that the drive can be removed.

But sometimes when you try to eject the USB device by using “Safely remove USB Mass Storage device” option, it shows a message box which says:

“The Device Generic volume cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device later”

In such case its not safe to remove the pen drive as it can get corrupt or get damaged. Many of us face such problem in removing pen-drive. In this post we will see how to fix such issue.

Let’s see why it happens and the fix

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Trouble:

Some days back we received a problem from one of our reader Shailesh Mohan saying:

When ever I try connect a any folder through Start >> Run and type \\192.168.0.100\foldername and error comes up: The Network is not present or not started in windows 2000

This problem is quite unusual, as this problem basically occurs because of a windows network service is stopped.

Lets see how can we fix this trouble.

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Trouble:

We have received many problems mentioning that they are not able to format their pen drives. Some of them have written that the pen drive capacity displayed is not correct.

When they try to format the pen drive, Windows Shows error "Can not format the pen drive". There can be more than one reasons behind such problems, some of the common problems are:

1. Virus or trojan infection.

2. Corrupted flash chips on the pen drive (hardware fault)

3. Fake pen drives ! (Many such drives are there in the markets, beware)

Lets see what to do to fix the issues.

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