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Discussions about drive names on WindowsForum.com cover renaming USB sticks, assigning drive letters, and inconsistencies between Windows Explorer and Disk Management. Users report issues such as USB stick names reverting to uppercase, inability to assign a specific drive letter (e.g., D) due to partition layout, erratic recognition of external USB hard drives, and permission errors when renaming drives. Troubleshooting topics include using Disk Management to change drive letters and resolving administrative privilege issues. These threads reflect common challenges with drive naming and letter assignment in Windows, particularly with multiple internal and external drives.
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    Windows 10 renaming usb sticks

    Hi, I would like to rename a usb stick. If I click on 'This PC' in explorer I can see the stick and if I try to rename it I partially succeed, the name changes but even though I type it in lower case and it shows up on the screen in lower case when I apply it I always get the name in upper case...
    • bob24
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    • drive names file explorer file renaming lowercase storage devices usb user query windows 10
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Can't assign drive letter D

    On my new Toshiba Portege R830, the first partition on the SSD is a small 1.46G system drive that is marked as the boot device and as a Recovery Partition. The next partition covering most of the disk is the C drive. I didn't even know this could be done. Is this a new way of doing things? On...
    • pmennen
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    • applications partition boot drive confusion data partition disk management drive letter drive names logical drive maintenance partition qparted recovery partition shortcuts ssd system drive tech support technology toshiba windows
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 - Erratic Recognition of External USB Hard Drives

    Hi, My PC (Windows 7) has two internal hard drives (C & D) and "C" is reserved for the operating system;" D" for my Data. For some time, I have also had two external "USB 2" hard drives (250GB & 500 GB), which recently, I have replaced by two "USB 3" One TB WD My Book 3 Essentials hard...
    • bht-at-home
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    • computer computer issues device manager disk management drive names drive recognition external storage file system format drive hardware compatibility hdd issues reboot storage tech support troubleshooting usb usb 3.0 usb drives western digital windows 7
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  4. Gil80

    Windows 7 Can't change drive names

    Hi there. I have 2 physical HDs and one of them is devided into two drives, so basically I have 3 drives: C: D: and E; I want to assign names to each of them and I could only do so to drive C:, but I seem to ran into this message that I need an admisitrative ability while I'm the...
    • Gil80
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    • administrative c drive d drive drive names e drive file management hard drive help windows
    • Replies: 27
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  5. fjk61011

    Windows 7 Drive names in W Explorer different than Disk Management?

    Drive names in Windows Explorer different than Disk Management. How would I fix this.
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