Windows 7: Why is my USB drive name is always in CAPS?

acidburn · 21 Jun 2011

Why would Windows insist on all capitals for USB disk names? If I rename it changes to capital casing. In explorer and in a command window:

Code:

C:\>label f: usbdisk

it becomes "USBDISK" in explorer. What gives?

Devux · 21 Jun 2011

Well that's odd. I have a few USB Flash drives and they allow lower case drive names. Just for curiosity's sake how is the drive formatted?

brady · 21 Jun 2011

FAT32 file system limitation

Devux · 21 Jun 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by brady

FAT32 file system limitation

That was what I was thinking. NTFS formatting will let you use lower case drive names. So what you could do is take all of the stuff off your flash drive. Reformat it using NTFS and then put everything back on, and you should be good.

mickey megabyte · 21 Jun 2011

you don't actually need to reformat, nor do you need fancy software to convert to ntfs.

Convert FAT or FAT32 Volume to NTFS

Devux · 21 Jun 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by mickey megabyte

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11106-convert-fat-fat32-volume-ntfs.html, nor do you need fancy software to convert to ntfs.

Well how about that. I didn't know you could do that! I've learned something today.

+Rep

mickey megabyte · 21 Jun 2011

thanks for rep, but hold on - i changed my link to a sevenforums tutorial, rather than some random outside site.

*edit* somebody changed your quote too

BriceH · 21 Jun 2011

Expanding on what mickey megabyte said, just run the following command in Command Prompt:

Code:

CONVERT f: /FS:NTFS
LABEL f: usbdisk

Devux · 21 Jun 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by BriceH

Expanding on what mickey megabyte said, just run the following command in Command Prompt:

Code:

CONVERT f: /FS:NTFS
LABEL f: usbdisk

After backing up the data on that drive of course.

seavixen32 · 21 Jun 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by acidburn

Why would Windows insist on all capitals for USB disk names? If I rename it changes to capital casing. In explorer and in a command window:

Code:

C:\>label f: usbdisk

it becomes "USBDISK" in explorer. What gives?

Thanks for starting this thread, it's something that's been bugging me for ages.

A solution at last and another thumbs up to Brink!

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