Explorer Displays Wrong Drive Label

[hurricane1951]

Windows Explorer/My Computer displays the wrong drive label on my
second hard drive and any USB drive I install. The names are correct
in Disk Management, but Explorer is incorrect, as well as any program
that employs Explorer to Browse for a file/directory.

It started when I installed a USB drive. We'll call this USBName. My
secondary hard drive was named DRIVE_D in Disk Management, and that is
the way it displayed in Explorer.

After I removed the USB drive and rebooted, the hard drive now
displayed the name USBName.

I've tried just about all suggestions so far (in a previous thread).
I've renamed both the hard drive and the USB drive. BOTH drives
display the same name (USBName). If I install another USB drive, it
displayes USBName. If I install both USB drives at the same time, the
second one takes on the name USBName-02.

Everyone I've asked has never come across this, and I'll admit it's
got me stumped as well.

So...any suggestions?

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Check out these registry keys (X is the drive letter in question):

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\explorer.exe\Drives\X\DefaultLabel
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\X\DefaultLabel



Uwe

 

[hurricane1951]

Thanks, Uwe, but no luck.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\explorer.exe\Drives\X\DefaultLabel
doesn't exist in my system. I get as far as HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
\Applications\explorer.exe, and then it shows about four entries.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
doesn't have a key DriveIcons

Dave

 

[Uwe Sieber]

These are all places I know for modifing drive labels.

Have you tried to search the registry for one of the
strange labels?



Uwe

 

[hurricane1951]

Yes, but it never finds anything.

These are all places I know for modifing drive labels.

Have you tried to search the registry for one of the
strange labels?

Uwe







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[hurricane1951]

Uwe,

I found it.

I was searching for a reason why the USB drive I used also ignored the
correct drive label. This drive has an autorun.inf that prompts me to
run a program. In the autorun.inf is the line:

label=LabelName

So any time I inserted the USB drive it would launch the autorun and
change the true volume label into whatever value it found equal to the
"label=" value.

You can see the inevitable result. Yes, there was a copy of the same
autorun.inf file on the D: drive, and once I deleted that the volume
name appeared correctly.

I wondered how the autorun.inf got onto the D: drive, since I can't
think of any circumstance where you would want a file like that on a
fixed hard drive, but then I stopped wondering and just was happy that
it was fixed. Thanks a lot for your help.

Dave

 

[Micronair]

Very Simple.
There will be an autorun.info file on the offending drives.
Just delete & reboot and the names will be restored.