Renaming a DVD drive

[Guest]

I installed a second hard drive and my existing DVD drive assumed the name of
my card reader (CF card). All the drive letters are correct and when a
CD/DVD is placed into the drive is assumes the CD/DVD name correctly but when
it is removed the default hardware name is CF card. How do I change the text
name to DVD drive? There is no rename option on a right click as there is
for a hard drive.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Zerngast.

"Drive" letters are not assigned permanently, but are reassigned from
scratch each time the computer is rebooted. If your hardware lineup changes
(such as a card reader gets removed or reattached), then the drive letters
get shuffled. But Disk Management will let you assign the letters you want
to each device. Then, on each reboot, it will try to assign those same
letters to those same "drives".

Go to Disk Management (at the Run prompt, type: diskmgmt.msc) and you will
see what I mean. Make Disk Management full-screen, then click View and put
the Volume List at the top of the screen and the Graphical View at the
bottom. Explore for a while, including DM's Help file, and you will quickly
discover the many talents of Disk Management. ;<)

I'm not sure why you don't get a Rename option when you right-click on the
drive in My Computer. My SanDisk SD card reader is S:, and My Computer
showed it as "Removable Disk (S". A right-click brought up the context
menu, including the Rename option and I changed its name to "SanDisk" and
the system added the (S for me. Right-clicks on my DVD drives also
produce context menus with the Rename option and I have changed these names
in the past.

Perhaps you need to specifically reassign drive letters now that you have
added the new HD.

RC