Solved Can't rename hard drives

russ8585 · Apr 14, 2025

I have 2 internal Satahard drives (Label M and P) which are labelled as “Local Drive”. No matter what Itry they will not rename.

Tried the following:

Rename via Explorer
Right click, Properties
Disk Management(including charging drive letter)
Disk List

I even cleaned &reformatted using Disk List, then rename with Disk Management. Ifound this did allow me to rename but after shutdown they went backto Local Drive.
I have a second M2 drive which I have been able to rename with no issues (Steam Drive. Label S)

Any ideas?

antspants · Apr 14, 2025

Try Minitool Partition Wizard Free version.
Right click on drive and select “Change Label”
Click “Apply” on the bottom left.

garlin · Apr 14, 2025

From the CMD prompt:

label M: "My Files"
label P: "Other Files"

glasskuter · Apr 14, 2025

I was going to suggest Minitool as well but @antspants beat me to it. I'm glad to have seen @garlin answer. He taught me something new today, but then he does that quite often.

Scott · Apr 15, 2025

I've always used File Explorer, select drive, right click, Properties.
In General tab type here what you want the label to be, click Apply.

tecknot · Apr 15, 2025

garlin said:
From the CMD prompt:

label M: "My Files"
label P: "Other Files"

Hi garlin,

I haven't tried it yet, but is this from the command prompt directly or do I have to go into DiskPart?

Kind regards,

tecknot

pseymour · Apr 15, 2025

Garlin appears to be offline, so I'll chime in. label is a command available in cmd. It's actually an .exe.

Code:

> label /?
Creates, changes, or deletes the volume label of a disk.

LABEL [drive:][label]
LABEL [/MP] [volume] [label]

  drive:          Specifies the drive letter of a drive.
  label           Specifies the label of the volume.
  /MP             Specifies that the volume should be treated as a
                  mount point or volume name.
  volume          Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
                  mount point, or volume name.  If volume name is specified,
                  the /MP flag is unnecessary.

tecknot · Apr 15, 2025

pseymour said:

Garlin appears to be offline, so I'll chime in. label is a command available in cmd. It's actually an .exe.

Code:

> label /?
Creates, changes, or deletes the volume label of a disk.

LABEL [drive:][label]
LABEL [/MP] [volume] [label]

  drive:          Specifies the drive letter of a drive.
  label           Specifies the label of the volume.
  /MP             Specifies that the volume should be treated as a
                  mount point or volume name.
  volume          Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
                  mount point, or volume name.  If volume name is specified,
                  the /MP flag is unnecessary.

Cool. Thanks, pseymour. Appreciate it.

Kind regards,

tecknot

russ8585 · Apr 15, 2025

Plot thicknes. I tired CMD and nothing changed.
Installed MiniTool and it shows the drives with the correct labels. However all drives still show as local disk in Explorer. In fact my S Drive has now changed to local disk too.

pseymour · Apr 15, 2025

Do you have anything weird going on the mount points key in the registry? For example, at

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\M

for the M drive, or \P for the P drive?

garlin · Apr 15, 2025

Check if there's an autorun.inf file on those drives.

Code:

[autorun]
OPEN=start.exe
ICON=myicon.ico
LABEL=My Volume

russ8585 · Apr 16, 2025

pseymour said:
Do you have anything weird going on the mount points key in the registry? For example, at

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\M

for the M drive, or \P for the P drive?

Nothing stands out?

russ8585 · Apr 16, 2025

garlin said:
Check if there's an autorun.inf file on those drives.

Code:

[autorun] OPEN=start.exe ICON=myicon.ico LABEL=My Volume

No. None of the drives have that.

garlin · Apr 16, 2025

russ8585 said:
Nothing stands out?

Scroll down, there should be some drive letters at the bottom of MountPoints2. Do they have a DefaultIcon setting underneath?

glasskuter · Apr 16, 2025

russ8585 said:
No. None of the drives have that.

You have to have view settings set to show hidden files to see those 2 entries.

russ8585 · Apr 16, 2025

garlin said:
Scroll down, there should be some drive letters at the bottom of MountPoints2. Do they have a DefaultIcon setting underneath?

There isn't. See screen shot

russ8585 · Apr 16, 2025

glasskuter said:
You have to have view settings set to show hidden files to see those 2 entries.

I did. Nothing.

russ8585 · May 11, 2025

Im still having issues this with. I noticed that 2 external hard drives do not have this problem (only my internal ones). I changed the ownership of the internal ones to my account only. Could this be the issue?

glasskuter · May 11, 2025

russ8585 said:
I changed the ownership of the internal ones to my account only. Could this be the issue?

Are you saying you took ownership of all your system files on your C: drive. Oh I hope not.

russ8585 · May 12, 2025

glasskuter said:
Are you saying you took ownership of all your system files on your C: drive. Oh I hope not.

No, just the seconary hard drives.

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