Hard drive window won't stay open

When I click on my hard drive icon on the desktop, the window opens but only stays open for about 1 or 2 seconds. Can anyone suggest a fix? Thanks.

Maybe the invisible .DS_Store file in the HD is corrupt.
-launch your Script Editor (Applications>AppleScript>Script Editor) and paste the (blue) code below into it
-then click Run (to delete the .DS_Store file)
do shell script "rm -fr /.DS_Store"
Tom

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