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post #1 of 12
5/12/10 at 9:18pm
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how do i change the name of this driver?
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post #2 of 12
5/12/10 at 10:09pm
You can't. It changes name according to whatever media you have loaded.
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post #3 of 12
5/13/10 at 4:39pm
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well i don't have a cd in there. a program changed it that also added drvies, but when i uninstalled it, it took them away, but did not change the name of the cd drive back :/
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post #4 of 12
5/13/10 at 4:56pm
You want to change the name of your hard drive? or your Blu-Ray drive?
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post #5 of 12
5/13/10 at 6:12pm
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its a dvd drive
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post #6 of 12
5/13/10 at 7:14pm
I found a program that claims to be able to rename DVD drives, but I've never heard of it before, so use at your own risk: http://www.technize.com/rename-cddvd...ve-in-windows/
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post #7 of 12
5/13/10 at 8:10pm
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can i go into the registry somehow and change it?
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post #8 of 12
5/13/10 at 11:14pm
Ummmmm....excuse me? Dudes....what about admin tools it's in xp even! And yeah it's just a registry thing to tell it what drive letter it should be, at least in the windows environment from what I know.

If you can find the classic control panel in windows vista/7, should be able to run the disk management service to do the same thing, can even delete partitions!! ...don't do that.
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post #9 of 12
5/14/10 at 1:44am
Disk Management can change the drive letter for the DVD drive but can't change the drive name. The original poster wants the drive to be identified as a DVD drive and not a Blu-Ray drive, if I understand correctly.

The registry fix is supposed to be in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > Explorer > Drive Icons, however there is no Drive Icons subsection in my registry under Explorer, so either it doesn't work in Windows 7 or there's another problem. Since I couldn't find it on my computer, I didn't suggest it.
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post #10 of 12
5/14/10 at 3:19am
Sometimes just making the entry if it isn't there in the registry is enough.

Restore point / reg backup of course.

But for the drive letter the above works fine

That said, system restore would likely help too being a registry thing.
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post #11 of 12
5/14/10 at 9:15pm
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thats weird... its back to DVD RW Drive (E and i didn't even have to do anything... hm, thanks everybody!
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post #12 of 12
5/15/10 at 6:39am
Ghosts!
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