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Linus - 29 Oct 2005 07:19 GMT

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

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Andrew E. - 29 Oct 2005 07:43 GMT

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:).

> 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.
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Richard Urban - 29 Oct 2005 11:36 GMT

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.

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Richard Urban
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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

> Why all the volumes.....You can change the letter(s) by going to
> run,type:
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Linus - 31 Oct 2005 16:27 GMT

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:

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John John - 29 Oct 2005 11:51 GMT

> ...page-file,set to:"no page file"

Most likely the pc will crash on reboot if you do that.

John

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Dixonian69 - 29 Oct 2005 07:45 GMT

Yeah Just go to My Computer. Select Drive , then rt click, choose "Rename"
Have fun

> 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.
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> Linus

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