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Names of external drives not shown in Windows Explorer
I've named my thumbdrives and eSATA HDD but in Windows Explorer the thumbdrives appear as "Removable Disk" and the eSATA HDD as "Local Disk".
(Named my thumbdrive "VALSTOCK" and eSATA HDD "MEDIA-STOR" back on XP)
Their names show up fine on XP PCs and MACs but not on my 7 PC.
But their names do show up in Disk Management on the 7 PC.
Also I can't rename the drives, they stay as the names above.
But I can rename the internal drives, at least that of C drive as the rest got back the names I gave them when I was on XP.
Tried searching around and found similar problems:
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