How do I get rid of a image on a hard disk.

[Mltsao]

lol... a few days a ago extracted a winxp image directly onto a hard drive so now windows thinks its a winxp cd.

everytime i double click it the winxp setup screen pops up.

i tried deleting the files but the image is still there.... any way i could get rid of it besides formating the HD?

 

[ojai00]

Drag the image to the Recycle Bin

 

[Mltsao]

its not that simple... the HD acts like a virtual cd drive that has a winxp image on it.

 

[flippinfleck]

Do you have your folders set to view all files? There should be a few hidden/system files there that are keeping it as is.

 

[stirling]

If I understand the situation right, you should be able to access it under DOS.
From there, deleting the autorun.inf file, should allow you access under windows without running the setup.

 

[Mitzi]

I'd second stirling advice...

Try to access the file from DOS and delete the autorun.inf file - you should then be able to access the files under Windows without the CD automatically starting.