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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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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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Yeah Just go to My Computer. Select Drive , then rt click, choose "Rename"
Have fun "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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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." wrote in message ... 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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Andrew E. wrote:
...page-file,set to:"no page file" Most likely the pc will crash on reboot if you do that. John |
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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." wrote in message ... 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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