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Bob24 is experiencing an issue where efforts to rename his USB stick in Windows Explorer result in the drive name reverting to uppercase, despite inputting lowercase. Usnorway suggests using Disk Management to rename the drive directly, which may resolve the problem. The overall sentiment indicates a troubleshooting exchange focused on how Windows handles drive name case sensitivity.

bob24

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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?
There are other drives named in lower case but for some reason I can't get the stick to stay in lower case?
Any ideas?
Bob.
 

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sounds like something in your browser is auto correcting so i'd ;
  • open Disk Management
  • right click the drive and pick Properites
  • change the name there and hit apply
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An image from 'renaming usb sticks'. Steps showing how to access and view properties of the D: data disk in Windows Disk Management.

An image from 'renaming usb sticks'. Steps showing how to access and view properties of the D: data disk in Windows Disk Management.

ussnorway

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sounds like something in your browser is auto correcting so i'd ;
  • open Disk Management
  • right click the drive and pick Properites
  • change the name there and hit apply
An image from 'renaming usb sticks'. Steps showing how to access and view properties of the D: data disk in Windows Disk Management.

An image from 'renaming usb sticks'. Steps showing how to access and view properties of the D: data disk in Windows Disk Management.

An image from 'renaming usb sticks'. Steps showing how to access and view properties of the D: data disk in Windows Disk Management.
 

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