- Cannot change drive names
- Posted by Terry Pinnell on February 24th, 2006
I cannot change the name of either of my CD drives in My Computer. All
other hard drives and removable drives (CF card reader, SD card
reader) *can* have their names changed, so why not these please?
One is my DVD RW, currently called 'CF Card (H
', which I need to
change not only to get the name right but to correct the letter, which
should be V:
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Terry, West Sussex, UK
- Posted by Ricardo on February 24th, 2006
"Terry Pinnell" wrote:
Removable Drives, cameras, flash disks, etc. are not permanently
"installed", therefore the drive name is dynamic: whenever you put it in,
Windows automatically assigns the first free drive letter.
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-=Ricardo -==Da==- Avacardo=-
- Posted by Terry Pinnell on February 24th, 2006
"Ricardo" <insert_user_name@hotmail.com> wrote:
Thanks. That does seem to partially explain it. But both my CF and SD
Card Readers show these in My Computer, even when empty:
Removable Disk (K
Removable Disk (L
and both *can* be renamed. Just as my HDs can. My Sony digicam however
doesn't appear in My Computer until I connect it. And with no disc in
the DVDRW drive H:, My Computer shows 'CF Card (H'. That's why I'd
like to be able to change it to 'DVDRW (H', because, as mentioned
above, my CF Card is L: !
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Terry, West Sussex, UK
- Posted by Stan Brown on February 24th, 2006
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:28:26 -0800 from Ricardo
<insert_user_name@hotmail.com>:
That's true as far as it goes, but you _can_ assign a letter to a
removable drive and Windows _does_ remember it, even after a reboot.
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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
- Posted by Keith Miller MVP on February 24th, 2006
To change the drive letter:
Control Panel -> Admin Tools -> Computer Mgmt
Under 'Storage' -> 'Disk Mgmt' -> right-click cd drive & use 'Change drive letters & paths'
To change the label:
Start -> Run -> regedit
Navigate to:
"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ex plorer\DriveIcons\<drive letter>\DefaultLabel
edit the (default) entry to whatever you like or delete for windows defaults.
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Good Luck,
Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
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- Posted by Terry Pinnell on February 25th, 2006
"Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@verizon.net> wrote:
Thanks Keith, that did the trick.
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Terry, West Sussex, UK
- Posted by Keith Miller MVP on February 25th, 2006
You're welcome. Glad it's fixed.
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Good Luck,
Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
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