Re: Volume/Partition labels

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. Dixonian69’s solution seemed the
easiest so I tried it first. It worked Ok on Windows XP Pro and Windows 2K
Pro and seemed Ok on my old ME. But I discovered that when I logged on and
off, the new designations on the volumes showing on ME randomly changed back
to the old. Didn’t seem to be any way to lock them.

So I did it as per Richard Urban suggested, this works on all three OS And
locks everything down.

Thanks again:
--
Linusverl


"Richard Urban" wrote:

> Andrew! STOP NOW!
>
> Why do you tell him to turn off the page file to change the volume name. It
> does not have to be turned off.
>
> You have been posting these highly "inaccurate" tips here for going on three
> months. Do you ever learn? Or do you just like to see your name in "lights"?
>
> To the O/P - Just open My Computer, right click on the drive you wish to
> rename. Go to properties and you will be able to give it a new name. There
> is no reason to turn off the pagefile as Andrew has inaccurately posted.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "Andrew E." <eckrichco@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5B89AD91-53EB-46EF-8328-BB8DFCB2F9C3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Why all the volumes.....You can change the letter(s) by going to
> > run,type:
> > diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click on a volume,go to actions,all,change drive
> > letter/
> > path,change the letter.However,if any of the volumes are active,they must
> > be
> > de-activated 1st,system properties,advanced,page-file,set to:"no page
> > file"
> > to
> > this for all,close-out,restart computer.Back in xp,reopen diskmgmt,set
> > letters.
> > After reset volumes in system,you probably could uninstall each in device
> > mgr
> > also (except C:).
> >
> > "Linus" wrote:
> >
> >> My new OS Is Win. XP Pro. Running on a HP Pentium 4 with two hard drives.
> >> The
> >> BIOS designates the Master as Drive 0 and the Slave as Drive 1.
> >>
> >> In computer management, the device manager shows the Master as Disk 0 and
> >> the Slave as Disk 1.
> >>
> >> But it shows the volume labels on the Master (Disk 0) as Disk 1_Vol. 1
> >> C: -
> >> Disk 1_Vol. 2 D: etc. while the volume labels on the Slave (Disk 1) don't
> >> show any disk number, just list I, J, K, L.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to change these volume labels to more accurately reflect
> >> the
> >> physical locations and get some consistency here, so the Master will show
> >> Disk 0_Vol.. and the Slave will show Disk 1_Vol. ?
> >>
> >> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Linus
> >>
> >> --
> >> Linusverl
>
>
>
.

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