How to rename hard drive?

Hello all!

Did my first clean install last night (98 SE) and all went well, but just to see what it would look like, I named the hard drive. It said that I could change it later. I don't like the way it looks and would like for it to be displayed just as (C instead of Daves(C but keep getting message 'cannot access the volume' when trying to change it. Help says to click properties of C: and change label on general tab. Have tried it from My Computer as well as Explorer. Can someone please tell me what I'm not doing right? TIA!


EDIT

I tried again, just hitting spacebar to clear label, then putting in C:\, then backspacing to C:, then backspacing to ______, which it finally accepted. Now I guess my question is, why couldn't I change it to something else (last night I tried putting in a different name also) and why wouldn't it clear out just hitting spacebar to leave the label blank?

 

Hi Dave
the "name" of the drive - the volume label - cannot have things like a colon : in it. Similarly, you aren't allowed a backslash \
It's much more finicky than names of files - no lowercase letters allowed, for example.
Spaces also are bad news. I think you can have a space only if it's in the middle of some letters/numbers... you can't have just a space though.
When you backspaced, and it finally accepted it, what you were putting in was a "blank string ", no spaces, no letters, nothing at all.
So, "nothingness" works... but a space by itself won't! Strange but true... a space is "tangible" to the PC even if you cannot see it.

best wishes, HJ.

**edit** hint: a good way to "blank out" the box for the drive name(label) is to use the delete key (the small delete key, not backspace!)...
...rather than the way you were doing it with the spacebar. If you try again, try putting more spaces with the spacebar, you'll see the insert point (flashing vertical line) move as you do so.
But using the delete key, the insert point will stay hard against the left hand side of the box.

HJ

 

Thanks Hugh.


Duhhhh.....I feel like Mr. Obvious now! Need sleep I think. LOL