[dba-Tech] Windows confuses two drive names

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 24 01:49:38 CST 2010


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

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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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