New Volume?

[Guest ManyBeers]

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]

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]

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]

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.