changing titles in the device manager

overclucker · May 31, 2006

anyone know where or what i have to do to chance the names of the hardware in the dev manager?

say i have harddrive that says WD raptor. how can i make it say Western Digital Raptor.

^ just a example ^

billb · May 31, 2006

overclucker said:
anyone know where or what i have to do to chance the names of the hardware in the dev manager?

say i have harddrive that says WD raptor. how can i make it say Western Digital Raptor.

^ just a example ^

Easy, just get an eprom writer and modify some hard coded data. In a word...No. If it was easy all the trolls would be selling 30gig seagates as raptors!

And, by the way....why do you asK?

Know Nuttin · May 31, 2006

Try this but always back up the registry before doing any editing.

Check this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi

You'll find SCSI0, SCSI1.

For example, mine is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\Scsi\Scsi Port 1\Scsi Bus 0\Target Id 0\Logical Unit Id 0

The "Identifier" key should show you the info you see in Device Manager, change that.

I haven't done this myself so I don't know how successful you will be.

redduc900 · Jun 1, 2006

In addition to Know Nuttin's suggestion...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Enum

... this is where Device Manager entries are stored by Category.

billb · Jun 1, 2006

redduc900 said:
In addition to Know Nuttin's suggestion...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Enum

... this is where Device Manager entries are stored by Category.

watch out for stuff in CurrentControlSet. There are multiple ControlSets in the registry and you have to change them all or no boot.

overclucker · Jun 1, 2006

billb said:
Easy, just get an eprom writer and modify some hard coded data. In a word...No. If it was easy all the trolls would be selling 30gig seagates as raptors!

And, by the way....why do you asK?

senior prank :bday:

overclucker · Jun 1, 2006

redduc900 said:
In addition to Know Nuttin's suggestion...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Enum

... this is where Device Manager entries are stored by Category.

dosnt seem i can write anything to that catagory, just says "error writing the values new contents"

El<(')>Maxi · Jun 1, 2006

Maybe try editing controlset01. There are two versions stored in the registry, 01 & 02. 01 is used when loading Windows (currentcontrolset) normally. 02 is used when booting to Last known good config.

overclucker · Jun 1, 2006

sweet!

still need to know how to change it in the dev manager

overclucker · Jun 2, 2006

El<(')>Maxi said:
Maybe try editing controlset01. There are two versions stored in the registry, 01 & 02. 01 is used when loading Windows (currentcontrolset) normally. 02 is used when booting to Last known good config.

nope all 3 of them wont let me write, its like they are in use or something.

El<(')>Maxi · Jun 2, 2006

Login on the administrative account

overclucker · Jun 2, 2006

El<(')>Maxi said:
Login on the administrative account

i did

overclucker · Jun 3, 2006

overclucker said:
sweet!

still need to know how to change it in the dev manager

hmm also seems to reset to the normal name when i restart.

ideas why?

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