Can I give my external drive a "real" name?

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I have a Gateway 836GM, XP sp3, computer drives C, D, E, F, G and H in
computer. I have 2 Maxtor external storage devices. I would like to name
them something like Maxtor 1 and Maxtor 2 (other than C:\ & D:\ I find the
extra letter designations too confusing). Is this even possible to do? ...
or should I ask for an increase in my ADD meds and live with confusion?
Thank you
 
Rhett said:
I have a Gateway 836GM, XP sp3, computer drives C, D, E, F, G and H in
computer. I have 2 Maxtor external storage devices. I would like to
name them something like Maxtor 1 and Maxtor 2 (other than C:\ & D:\
I find the extra letter designations too confusing). Is this even
possible to do? ... or should I ask for an increase in my ADD meds
and live with confusion? Thank you
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Right click the drive and select "Rename"

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hit windows key then e. right click the drive choose rename and away you go.
renamed all mine - the letters remain tho' its no problem
 
Partitions or volumes have two unique identifiers, drive letter and volume
name. Drive Letter can be changed by Disk Management and you can
rename the volumes to anything you like by accessing Properties of the
volume. Right Click the drive in Explorer and left click Properties. The
current volume label is shown in the text box. Simply remove it's existing
name and replace with your own.
 
Per Rhett:
I have a Gateway 836GM, XP sp3, computer drives C, D, E, F, G and H in
computer. I have 2 Maxtor external storage devices. I would like to name
them something like Maxtor 1 and Maxtor 2 (other than C:\ & D:\ I find the
extra letter designations too confusing). Is this even possible to do? ...
or should I ask for an increase in my ADD meds and live with confusion?
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I am not aware of any way to replace "D:" with "Whatever:".

What I do with my five "MyBook" drives is this:

1) MyComputer | Manage | Disk Management | (select the drive) |
(right-click the drive) | Change Drive Letter and Paths
and assign a common letter to all drives. I use "F"
(you have to do this for each drive).

2) MyComputer | (right-click the drive) | Type in the name you
want (I use "Backup1", "Backup2", and so-forth).

That way, whenever I attach one of the backup drives, it always
comes up as F: with the appropriate name "Backup1" or "Backup2"
or whatever.

The scheme breaks down when two backup drives are connected at
once and also occasionally for other reasons like plugging a
flash drive in when the next available drive letter is "F" and
then plugging in one of the backup drives. I should probably
change my scheme to make all the backup drives "Z:".
 
Yes...millions of pc'ers are now changing there drives/names as we
speak....have you done yours yet? I changed one of mine to S:torage ;-)
 
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