Guest ManyBeers Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 My laptop running WindowsXP SP 3 had one harddrive divided into 2 partitions... C:(system) and D:\drives. Ok ,so i recently decided to wipe my D: and split it up into two parts. First part would be a new smaller D:\ drive and the second half would be left as Free space to eventually put a Linux distro on. Anyways now in Windows Explorer it shows D:\New Volume and not D:\local disk. How come? ps If you are wondering why the drive letter shows first it is a registry change i made several years ago. I prefer the drive letter first.
Guest Rich Barry Posted August 23, 2008 Posted August 23, 2008 Re: New Volume? You should be able to rt click the D: drive Icon in MyComputer and select Rename and type in local disk. "ManyBeers" <ManyBeers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:46EAE920-0802-480C-B543-F022E0D5A45B@microsoft.com... > My laptop running WindowsXP SP 3 had one harddrive divided into 2 > partitions... > C:(system) and D:\drives. Ok ,so i recently decided to wipe my D: and > split > it up into two parts. First part would be a new smaller D:\ drive and the > second half would be left as Free space to eventually put a Linux distro > on. > Anyways now in Windows Explorer it shows D:\New Volume and not D:\local > disk. > How come? > > ps If you are wondering why the drive letter shows first it is a registry > change i made several years ago. I prefer the drive letter first.
Guest AJR Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Re: New Volume? When you install/create drives and do not supply a volume label, Windows will used eithr of two default labes local disk or new volume. As Rich suggests you can provide your own label. "ManyBeers" <ManyBeers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:46EAE920-0802-480C-B543-F022E0D5A45B@microsoft.com... > My laptop running WindowsXP SP 3 had one harddrive divided into 2 > partitions... > C:(system) and D:\drives. Ok ,so i recently decided to wipe my D: and > split > it up into two parts. First part would be a new smaller D:\ drive and the > second half would be left as Free space to eventually put a Linux distro > on. > Anyways now in Windows Explorer it shows D:\New Volume and not D:\local > disk. > How come? > > ps If you are wondering why the drive letter shows first it is a registry > change i made several years ago. I prefer the drive letter first.
Guest ManyBeers Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Re: New Volume? "AJR" wrote: > When you install/create drives and do not supply a volume label, Windows > will used eithr of two default labes local disk or new volume. > > As Rich suggests you can provide your own label. After about 50 tries it finally obeyed me and now is displaying correctly. Thanks to both of you.
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