Explorer Displays Wrong Drive Label

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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?
 
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
 
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
 
These are all places I know for modifing drive labels.

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



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