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Rename a CD Drive

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by ninet4

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I want to know if there is a way to rename a CD Drive in Windows XP. Not a disk, but the drive itself. My CDRW drive shows up as "CD Drive (R:)" in windows explorer. I always set my CDRW drives to R: to help me distiguish that it is my recordable drive. I just wish I could rename it from "CD Drive" to something more descriptive. Something as simple as "CDRW" would be fine with me. I already searched my registry for both "CD Drive" and "CD Drive (R:)". Found nothing. I also tried the command line command "label". No dice. Anyone else do this?

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by w2ktechman

Control Panel, Administrative tools, Computer Management, Disk Management. Right click on your CDRW Drive and click Change Drive Letters.

by ninet4

I didn't ask how to change the drive letter. I asked how to change the drive name. Nice try though.

by ninet4

Well, holy crap. I don't believe it. Someone was actually helpful for a change. Thanks for the link. It worked perfectly.

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