Incorrect drive name in explorer!???

[jmdixon85]

The following screenshot shows my problem best.



As you can see my shared "S" drive on my fileserver should be labelled "Data". It is in drive manager and properties but explorer labels it as "pendrive"?...and I cannot seem to correct it

Not sure how this happened as the only USB pendrive used on this system is labelled "freecom" so god knows where the name pendrive came from

The OS is Windows Server 2008R2 x64

 

[Automata]

What happens if you right click on the PENDRIVE and select rename?

 

[jmdixon85]

What happens if you right click on the PENDRIVE and select rename?

The change just doesn't work, it lets me write "DATA" but as soon as I press enter it reverts back to pendrive

 

[Automata]

Are there any .inf files on the root of the disk that specify what the label is? You will have to turn off hidden files and folders and turn on show system files to be able to see them.

 

[jmdixon85]

Are there any .inf files on the root of the disk that specify what the label is? You will have to turn off hidden files and folders and turn on show system files to be able to see them.

Nope, no files at all. Just the folders as in the screenshot. Show all hidden files etc is already enabled on my fileserver.

 

[Automata]

From doing seaches online, you are not alone with this issue. Since it is purely cosmetic in Explorer, I wouldn't worry about it. Beyond that, I'm out of ideas.

 

[jmdixon85]

From doing seaches online, you are not alone with this issue. Since it is purely cosmetic in Explorer, I wouldn't worry about it. Beyond that, I'm out of ideas.

Yes it is just an annoyance at worst. Just seemed the sort of thing there would be a quick fix for

 

[redduc900]

Post the contents of the autorun.inf file on the root of the drive. The Label= line probably shows label=PENDRIVE, so you may need to delete it and then reboot.

S:\>Attrib -s -h -r autorun.inf
S:\>del autorun.inf

 

[jmdixon85]

Thanks very much redduc900!

Thats sorted it

 

[Automata]

Just as a side note, that is the file I mentioned in my previous post.

 

[jmdixon85]

Just as a side note, that is the file I mentioned in my previous post.

Sorry thiddy. It didn't show up in explorer even with the "show hidden files and folders" option enabled. So I didn't think I had one on my S: drive.

I just ran the commands redduc900 told me and all is well now

 

[c627627]

It did not show up because you needed to also UNCHECK:
Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)


Here's an interesting freeware program that sets custom drive icons and drive names if you don't want to do it manually:
http://leelusoft.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-drive-icon-10.html

 

[jmdixon85]

It did not show up because you needed to also UNCHECK:
Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)


Here's an interesting freeware program that sets custom drive icons and drive names if you don't want to do it manually:
http://leelusoft.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-drive-icon-10.html

yes that was a setting I totally forgot about.

And thanks for the link. I will check it out when I get back home