Sorry guys, I searched and then posted it. coz i never got the answer. may be people didn't ask it correctly. so here i go.
i don't know whether you had this problem or not. But i am really off with this, actually i have a TOSHIBA 160 GB SATA USB hard drive . I have 4 drives. and since i have installed Vista(i didn't notice in XP) there are some files automaticallly created in all the USB drives. and as soon as i double click the drive it opens up in another window not in the same window. I have seen people taking about that its a virus. but i havn't come across anything wrong. i have tried so many things.
1.I have formatted the Drives and deleted the files and folders, I don't know how many times..
2.ran a virus scan for the whole Hard drive. (symantec Corporate)
3.ran spyware scan as well.. tried everything.. (built In Defender)
the files and folders are as follows:
folder $lcldata$
folder msrm
folder NT.Config
file AAUTORUN.INF
file inform.exe
file idupver.txt
and all these are system files.
attached is the screenshot of one of the drives.
i have also opened the autorun.inf file at top.