Craig et al;
Have seen this problem before many times. Depending on the user's windows corruptions and assuming no viruses/malware are causing this problem, HP printer drivers can often cause this particular problem as you noted. As soon as I saw your hard drive icon label was renamed while reading the beginning of the thread, I thought to myself that stuff got written to the registry by your HP printer driver! There are a couple of causes of this, and one is if you installed the HP printer driver from a CD disc; if the disc is old or scratched, the HP install program doesn't work correctly and throws random information into places it shouldn't. Also, if your CD/DVD drive lens is dirty or scratched and hasn't been cleaned in a while, misreading of files and executables from the CD install disc can also cause this problem. And lastly, as HP has probably hundreds of thousands or even millions of drivers for their printers for all the different versions of windows, they don't always get to clean up broken or old driver files on their website; so it's best practice to uninstall the HP driver you have been running for that printer, and download and install the latest printer driver from their support.hp.com website. Pop in your Model number to their database, and select the Windows version you are running..download and install and you're good to go!
What's really cool is that HP is aware of this problem occurring with their older drivers on earlier versions of Windows (everything before Win10 is now considered "Older Windows" to Microsoft), and their
NEW drivers can often repair that type of damage and perform some of the steps here as described by Trouble automatically. The first time I saw an updated driver do this--I was amazed!!
But that's one of the reasons that HP is so good, and why they are still #1 worldwide in the printer marketplace.
So, for other forum users reading this thread, this might be another way to get your drive icon to display correctly without having to go through Registry Editing, which can be high risk if you don't know what you are doing.
Cheers!
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