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  • daemorok
    mini MURCer
    • Feb 2003
    • 51
    #1

    CD or DVD names in My Computer

    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
    All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allan Poe-
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    • Paddy
      Super MURCer
      • Mar 2000
      • 6067
      #2
      What OS? If XP, then this can easily be done in the 'Disk management part of the Computer management util'.
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        • daemorok
          mini MURCer
          • Feb 2003
          • 51
          #3
          yes its XP, but what i want to do is set the drive name for the DVDRW to the default
          All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allan Poe-

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            • Wombat
              Super MURCer
              • Aug 2000
              • 9498
              #4
              You can't just switch one of them to a third drive letter temporarily?
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                • daemorok
                  mini MURCer
                  • Feb 2003
                  • 51
                  #5
                  I changed it to a new letter and back, and it took the name back when it took the old letter back
                  All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allan Poe-

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                    • daemorok
                      mini MURCer
                      • Feb 2003
                      • 51
                      #6
                      bump O_o
                      All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allan Poe-

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                        • Marshmallowman
                          Super MURCer
                          • Sep 1999
                          • 3416
                          #7
                          Just reboot, the volume label on removable drives comes form the media inserted.

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                            • daemorok
                              mini MURCer
                              • Feb 2003
                              • 51
                              #8
                              XP seems to remember it even if you change the drive to another letter, reboot and then change it back and reboot again
                              All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allan Poe-

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                                • Marshmallowman
                                  Super MURCer
                                  • Sep 1999
                                  • 3416
                                  #9
                                  even if you change the media? (CF or disk)

                                  Sound like another undocumneted feature.

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                                    • Gurm
                                      MS Fanboy
                                      • Aug 1999
                                      • 11460
                                      #10
                                      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.

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                                        • daemorok
                                          mini MURCer
                                          • Feb 2003
                                          • 51
                                          #11
                                          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.
                                          All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allan Poe-

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                                            • spadnos
                                              MURCer
                                              • Jun 2002
                                              • 859
                                              #12
                                              It might be easier to see if there were an image attached

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                                                • daemorok
                                                  mini MURCer
                                                  • Feb 2003
                                                  • 51
                                                  #13
                                                  .. i can see the image.. here is the URL

                                                  http://daemorok.com/Junk/mycompnames.jpg
                                                  All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allan Poe-

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                                                    • daemorok
                                                      mini MURCer
                                                      • Feb 2003
                                                      • 51
                                                      #14
                                                      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
                                                      All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allan Poe-

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                                                        • Kooldino
                                                          Super MURCer
                                                          • Nov 2002
                                                          • 3026
                                                          #15
                                                          w00t! Glad that worked.

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