Can't rename my drive

[Xela]

Hi,

I have set a SATA drive in my PC, and under WXP, had
formated it (one partition)
I wanted to rename it, but I got an error "You do not
have sufficient rights to perform this operation".
I am logged as the administrator, so I do not understand
clearly why I cannot do this, or where I can modify this
behaviour.
Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks for your support

 

[Rob Graham]

Hi,

I have set a SATA drive in my PC, and under WXP, had
formated it (one partition)
I wanted to rename it, but I got an error "You do not
have sufficient rights to perform this operation".
I am logged as the administrator, so I do not understand
clearly why I cannot do this, or where I can modify this
behaviour.
Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks for your support

I've managed to change mine OK (i.e. the name of the drive) from Local Disk
to C by right-clicking on the name of the drive in W Explorer and renaming
it, if that's what you were trying to do.

But if you're trying to do another thing that I was trying, i.e. change the
account name and all the names that show up on the Start menu and the list
of folders attributable to the account holder you have to set up another
account under the name you want and then delete the first one. It's a bit of
a performance, particularly if you want OE to migrate as well. I thought I
could just change the name easily using Registry changes but not so, it
seems. You can change the registered name but your original name stays
inflexibly where it was! I'm new to XP and learning fast with the help of
others on the NG.

HTH.

Rob Graham

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your answer Rob.

The action I would like to do is just to rename the drive
(right clicking on the name in Windows Explorer for
example), but I get the error. For my C drive no problem,
I can put whatever I want, but for this E drive, it
remains definitely to "New Volume".

Regards,

 

[Rob Graham]

Thank you for your answer Rob.

The action I would like to do is just to rename the drive
(right clicking on the name in Windows Explorer for
example), but I get the error. For my C drive no problem,
I can put whatever I want, but for this E drive, it
remains definitely to "New Volume".

Interesting, that. When I right click on CD drives I'm not even given the
option of renaming, only on the C and floppy. Someone else more qualified
than I may know the reason.

Rob

 

[Xela]

For CD, it is normal as this information is written on
the CD itself, so usually, you change that with CD-burner
soft.

For my case, the only solution I had was to transfer the
data to another disk, delete the disk, recreate the
partition, and at this time, I can change the name
whenever I want. So I do not understand the previous
behaviour.

Anyway, thanks for your help.