It almost sounds like you have an autorun file in the root. Try right clicking on the drive in My Computer and selecting "Open". If that fails, try holding down the shift key and double-click on the drive. (This usually stops autorun) George. From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Williams Family Sent: 06 July 2011 14:44 To: access uk Subject: [access-uk] OT help please dodgy usb drive Hi Can anyone help? our USB 1 terabite USB drive has suddenly decided to play up. according to the properties it has 111 GB used space and 820 GB unused space. All our music and pictures plus other stuff is on this drive but all it displays when opened is autorun. 1: does this mean the drive is dead, 2. can anything be done to recover any content? many thanks, hlopefully brian