wraithmajere
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I am having a really difficult time "renaming" or "labeling" hard disk drives (ide) and (sata) and (usb)
When I right click the drive and choose rename, it does nothing after I type the new name in, I also have tried to go into Disk Management to label them, same efffect, does nothing. (also tried on a fresh install)
-- MB Drivers are "not" loaded but there are no drivers for Nforce 4 Sli for Windows 7 64bit yet... but the pre-installed W7 Drivers appear to be working fine.... (tried to load the Vista 64 Nforce 4 Sli Drivers, -- these will crash Windows 7, in both normal mode and safe mode (blue screens) -- if you load these, choose "last known good configuration" and you'll be okay again.
**Can anyone let me know if there is a quick way to rename a drive in the registry or has a tip to get the Hard Drive Labels Changed?
Im trying to label them as such:
System-C
Games-D
Storage-E
Storage-F
Storage-G
etc.... etc..
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W7 64bit (activated) Fully Updated
AMD 64x2 3800+ 2g DDR400 PC3200
2x34g Raptors RAID-0 128k Stripe
Gigabyte K8N-PRO SLI Nforce 4 SLI MB
2x9800gtx BFG Tech Nvidia Cards SLI
TV Wonder 650 Pro PCI-E
X-Fi XtremeMusic
(So far all hardware appears to be working fine in W7 64bit)
When I right click the drive and choose rename, it does nothing after I type the new name in, I also have tried to go into Disk Management to label them, same efffect, does nothing. (also tried on a fresh install)
-- MB Drivers are "not" loaded but there are no drivers for Nforce 4 Sli for Windows 7 64bit yet... but the pre-installed W7 Drivers appear to be working fine.... (tried to load the Vista 64 Nforce 4 Sli Drivers, -- these will crash Windows 7, in both normal mode and safe mode (blue screens) -- if you load these, choose "last known good configuration" and you'll be okay again.
**Can anyone let me know if there is a quick way to rename a drive in the registry or has a tip to get the Hard Drive Labels Changed?
Im trying to label them as such:
System-C
Games-D
Storage-E
Storage-F
Storage-G
etc.... etc..
----------------------------------
W7 64bit (activated) Fully Updated
AMD 64x2 3800+ 2g DDR400 PC3200
2x34g Raptors RAID-0 128k Stripe
Gigabyte K8N-PRO SLI Nforce 4 SLI MB
2x9800gtx BFG Tech Nvidia Cards SLI
TV Wonder 650 Pro PCI-E
X-Fi XtremeMusic
(So far all hardware appears to be working fine in W7 64bit)
is it possible that you have UAC disabled? if so, enable it. because when I try to rename a drive it tells me I need admin rights and then gives me a UAC-window that allows me to give explorer.exe administrative rights.
so if UAC is disabled try enabling it.
regards
edit: there is no way labeling hard drives by editing the registry, because the drives name is saved on the drive itself.
so if UAC is disabled try enabling it.
regards
edit: there is no way labeling hard drives by editing the registry, because the drives name is saved on the drive itself.
wraithmajere
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I've renamed most of mine, apart from the C-drive and my L-drive [a USB flash stick]. I simply used Disk Management and it all worked fine. I had no UAC issues going on, mine are still set to their default settings. I did have to wait a few minutes before my external HDD changed but it was just a case of waiting and letting the system do its thing.
You'll know this path already but for others it may be of use.
Start>Computer>Right click on computer & select 'Manage'>Computer Management screen opens>select Disc Management>select & right click on the drive>select Change Drive Letter & Paths
You'll know this path already but for others it may be of use.
Start>Computer>Right click on computer & select 'Manage'>Computer Management screen opens>select Disc Management>select & right click on the drive>select Change Drive Letter & Paths
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Renaming HDs
Re-Enabling UAC, did the trick for the SATA/IDE Drives... however my external usb HD still will not allow me to rename it... tried in safemode as well... no luck
however, in safemode:
the drives even though they are renamed in normal mode... display as:
C:\
D:\
E:\
F:\
G:\
and not the names that display in normal mode...
any help w/ renaming a usb drive?
Re-Enabling UAC, did the trick for the SATA/IDE Drives... however my external usb HD still will not allow me to rename it... tried in safemode as well... no luck
however, in safemode:
the drives even though they are renamed in normal mode... display as:
C:\
D:\
E:\
F:\
G:\
and not the names that display in normal mode...
any help w/ renaming a usb drive?
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