Win 7: Can't rename drive name

CA50

CA50

Level E
Hi everybody,

I have install windows 7 on c-drive and have other Windows XP in drive D and J. :ohyeah:

Now i have renamed the drive names, according to me need. I have renamed Drive J as "Public XP", but in explorer it shows as "Xtra"- which was the former name against drive letter X.

The name is shown correctly in windows drive management console, but not in the windows explorer. Screen shot attached for better clarity of my problem at hand.

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Thanks for reading :)
 
Its a common issue if you have ever applied Flash Disinfector in xp to avoid getting the autorun.inf virus. Even if you dint, the following should help you. :) Copy the following in a notepad and save as xyz.bat file and run in that drive. In the "set drv" syntax replace the drive letter with the one you are applying it to. Do it for all drives having this issue by just replacing the drive letter in that syntax.

Do it from an admin a/c only.

@echo off

set drv=d:\

attrib -A -H -S -R %drv%\autorun.inf

del \\.\%drv%\autorun.inf\"lpt3.This folder was created by Flash_Disinfector"

rd %drv%\autorun.inf

** dont forget to restart the machine once applied.
 
^ i have used USB disk security to create autorun.inf folders in all the drives.

So will your above solution work for that??
 
Tried that, that trick works when i remove the autorun.inf directory, But i want the directory.

Any alternative to rename keeping the autorun.inf folder ??
 
But i use multiple OS, even Win XP, i am too paranoid with this malware, because once in the past, i got a good test of this :P
 
If I got your point correctly than I can suggest that you can copy the autorun.inf to another place like on other drive or any external storage, rename the drive and then copy back the autorun.inf.
 
^ tried that, i renamed the drive after removing the autorun.inf folder, then it renamed successfully, later when i re-created the folder, the previous name appeared :(
 
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