Rename hard drive

[zSplash]

I have 3 floppies, all named with unhelpful names. How can I rename a
drive? For example, from My Computer, D drive currently is identified by:
"030712_0000 (D". How can I rename that drive to "RW Drive (D"?

TIA

 

[David H. Lipman]

Double click on "My Computer" --> Right Click on drive letter --> Properties
Change the name in the "Label:" field.

Dave

 

[David H. Lipman]

Sure...

Open a command prompt with CMD or COMMAND and enter:

label c: MyName

Dave

 

[zsplash]

Thanks for the help, David. Tried what you suggest, and I am not able to
change the name in the label field. Any other ideas?

st.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Open a command prompt with CMD or COMMAND and enter:

label c: MyName

The above did not work either ?

Dave

 

[David H. Lipman]

It's NOT a network command. The command "label" is an internal command to COMMAND.COM.

Therefore I must assume that "D:" is NOT a hard disk and is a CDROM drive. You can't rename
a CD !

Dave

 

[zsplash]

You are too right. D is a second CDROM drive. I am so sorry I
misidentified what I wanted. D is a read-write CDROM drive. So, there is
no way to rename a CDROM drive, even if that drive is read-write?

TIA

 

[David H. Lipman]

zsplash:

Man its taken almost two weeks to get here !

CD, CDR and CDRW drives themselves don't have names. The media that is inserted into the
drives, i.e, CD disks, carry the name. CDROM, as the name Read Only Memory implies, can't
be modified. CDR are write once media and the name to a CD must be provided to the Software
(Roxio, Nero, CD Maker, etc.) at the time of writing aka; Burning. CDRW disks are the same
except that they are considered write many disks therefore you can erase the contents of the
disk and burn a new image to the disk, the name can be provided upon a re-write. There is
software that can allow CDRW media to be used almost as if it was a hard disk. this is good
only for the PC it is being used in and is "usually" non transferable to other platforms.
in this mode the name of the CDRW media "may" be renamed. I personally avoid this type of
CD use so someone else would have to affirm or deny that statement.

For most intents and purposes, the name of CD media is provided at the time of the burn
only.

Hopefully this closes this issue.

Dave


| You are too right. D is a second CDROM drive. I am so sorry I
| misidentified what I wanted. D is a read-write CDROM drive. So, there is
| no way to rename a CDROM drive, even if that drive is read-write?
|
| TIA

 

[zSplash]

Thank you so much.

st.

 

[Colon Terminus]

Open RegEdit and navigate to

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons

Here you need a key named for the drive letter you want to rename, and
another key subordinate to this key named DefaultLabel whose default value
is the text string that Windows is to display for that drive.

Let's assume you have a CDROM as drive "D" and a DVD player as drive "E".

Create a key named D subordinate to DriveIcons.
Create a key subordinate to D, named DefaultLabel. Assign DefaultLabel a
default value of "CD Reader".

Create a key named E subordinate to DriveIcons.
Create a key subordinate to E, named DefaultLabel. Assign DefaultLabel a
default value of "DVD Player".

Reboot.

Now drive D will be named "CD Reader" and drive E will be named "DVD
Player". Of course, when you have media inserted into either drive, it will
be named according to the internal name of the media.