CD or DVD names in My Computer

[daemorok]

I have this annoying problem...

I have a USB DVDRW and a USB CF card reader.
By default windows detected them fine, and I renamed the card reader so I could find it more easily.

Then later I realized that I wanted to change my drive letters.
So the card reader was I and the DVDRW was L or something.
To go with how the rest of my drives were organized, I needed to swap the drive letters.

Now my DVDRW drive is named what my CF reader used to be named, and I cant change it.

any ideas? O_o

[Paddy]

What OS? If XP, then this can easily be done in the 'Disk management part of the Computer management util'.

[daemorok]

yes its XP, but what i want to do is set the drive name for the DVDRW to the default

[Wombat]

You can't just switch one of them to a third drive letter temporarily?

[daemorok]

I changed it to a new letter and back, and it took the name back when it took the old letter back

[daemorok]

bump O_o

[Marshmallowman]

Just reboot, the volume label on removable drives comes form the media inserted.

[daemorok]

XP seems to remember it even if you change the drive to another letter, reboot and then change it back and reboot again

[Marshmallowman]

even if you change the media? (CF or disk)

Sound like another undocumneted feature.

[Gurm]

You mean the "name" like as in "DVD Drive" or "CD/RW Drive"?

Not much you can do about that, at least not that I know of.

- Gurm

[daemorok]

ok here is an image of how it is now


notice how Drive I has a CD icon but it has a name?
That is a USB DVDRW Drive.

The reason it has that name is, the compact flash reader, that I renamed, used to be drive I. When i went to reorganize the drive order, I changed the DVDRW to I, and it kept the name that I had given the CF reader. Now I am trying to reset drive I to the default windows name for the USB DVDRW.

[spadnos]

It might be easier to see if there were an image attached

[daemorok]

.. i can see the image.. here is the URL

http://daemorok.com/Junk/mycompnames.jpg

[daemorok]

Just wanted to post my solution.

After a suggestion from Kooldino, I searched the registry for the name of the drive. It came up with a single entry so I deleted that key and rebooted, Fixed it good. O_o

[Kooldino]

w00t! Glad that worked.