Renaming external drive

Good suggestion, I'll try that later today.

I tried connecting it to another computer (my laptop) that uses XP. It had the same name as it did on Win 7. I tried disk management and the it had was the name I tried changing it to. The interesting thin is that The drive has not only the name of the thumb drive but the icon as well. My thumb drive is "Roboform 2 Go". Any ideas?

This is just a crazy hunch, but try deleting the autorun.inf file in the root of the C: drive (you'll have to enable the showing of hidden files to see it). This file can be used to specify the name of the drive and might be your problem. Or, it could not, but it's worth a try.

Here's a link just for FYI on autorun.inf info:

USB Drive AutoRun.inf Tweaking

Good Idea!!!! When I opened the autorun file it had the same listing as my thumb drive. I merely renamed it autorunold and turned off my external drive. When I turned it back on it came up on Windows Explorer as "external drive". Actually a simple solution to a perplexing problem. Thank You very much.

Bill

No problem. Glad it's fixed! :)