Windows Drive Labels

You see the drive labels every time you open or explore “My Computer”. These are the friendly names you assign to your physical hard drives.

For the most part, you probably ignore them, but if you do decide to label your hard drives, try to limit the labels to letters and numbers only. I only say this because I ran into an odd error while using a batch script to report on space usage. This script would not report correct information until I removed the label on the hard drive (it previously had a “/” character in it). Very odd considering I could only replicate the error on one other machine, but not any others.

You can change the drive labels by opening “My Computer”, right clicking on the hard drive and selecting Properties. If there is no label assigned, “Local Disk” is displayed.

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Greg Zeng
Networking drives/ files with file browsers (SerServant Salamander is THE absolute best of them all), will identify USB & other drives clearly.
“HP2-BOOT-c20-200″ is that of my second HP computer, Dirve C is 20 gb, on a 200 gb HDD. “usb-200-bak” is one of my usb 200gb drives.
“6120404684365″; “data-ntfs-2gb” are the drive lables of some flash drives.