[dba-Tech] Windows confuses two drive names

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 07:02:38 CST 2010


Oh I see. Not the drive letter, the NAME. Like you said.  I've never
changed names on drives.

GK

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Peter Brawley
<peter.brawley at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Gary,
>
> In Win Explorer. Any drive can have a name in addition to its drive
> letter designation. When I rename e: to, say, "DVDwrite", WinExplorer
> also changes the name of f: to "DVDWrite".
>
> PB
>
> -----
>
> Gary Kjos wrote:
>> Where are you doing this rename?  Control Panel/Administrative
>> tools/System Management/ Drive Management or something like that? And
>> what are you trying to rename it to?  A different letter alltogether
>> like J?
>>
>> GK
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Peter Brawley
>> <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On an XP Pro SP2 box, a: is a floppy, c: is sysdrive, d: and e: are
>>> CD/DVD drives, f: and higher are network drives. Renaming e: sets the
>>> name of f: to the name of e:, and vice-versa. Does anyone know a fix for
>>> this particular Gates bug?
>>>
>>> PB
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