USB drive seen as local disk...

I have been using this USB drive since XP and it was called "Portable" until now. Win 7 calls it "Local Disk" and won't let me rename it. I have no problem renaming internal drives. I can use this [USB] drive just fine, unless I connect it through a Hub, but that's another issue.

Any tips? Does this happen to other users?

 

My USB Fash Drive shows as "Removable Storage" in XP and shows in Device Manager as "USBDisk RunDisk USB Device ".
The names may change in Windows7 - as long as it's shown - should be OK. Neil.

 

Ya, same thing with the flash drive, can't rename it either. XP or Vista can "see" and display it's name [ "flash" or "stick"], but not the sophisticated Win 7: just display them as generic "local disk" or "removable disk" and just do nothing when renaming, kind of annoying when you have more than one... a little lame too. I removed the built-in card reader [I don't use it much] as it was displaying an extra 4 dummy "removable disks ", making that much harder to find the [real] ones.

JC

 

Have you had a look here:http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter
Cheers Neil.

 

It's not an assigned drive letter issue... more of a renaming issue, as explained in this page: Microsoft Windows Help: Rename a drive but it doesn't work. I have left feedback...

JC

 

There is no difference in my Win 7 setup when right clicking on the drive, you have as an example: Local Disk E select" Rename" change name not the drive letter
USB Disk F Rename (your option)
I can change the name as often as I like, as long as you don't make the name too long, it will tell you so, hit Enter and its done.

 

Check to see if there's an Autorun file in the root of the drive. If it's there, open it in notepad and edit the line that says label=. Just put whatever you want it to be named after the =. Save it, remove the drive, put it back in and see if that works for you.

If you don't have an autorun file, open notepad and copy and paste this code into it and then, where I have "name of drive here ", change that to whatever you want it to be.

Code:

[AutoRun]
label=name of drive here

Save it as Autorun.inf in the root of the usb drive. Remove the drive, put it back in and see what happens.

 

@ Hawk22: Like I said, I do that and nothing happens, no error message, it just keep showing "local disk ".

@ Zander: Thanks, I found that on the net and gave a go, but the OS won't let me save with an .inf extension. The drives already have labels made with XP or Vista... only Win 7 can't "see" them... minor humbug, now that the card reader is gone, they're the only drives without a label and I can tell the difference by the size: 80Gb and 250Gb