can anyone help me with this... the first cd drive is a cd-rw drive, the second is a dvd-rom drive... why do they not id correctly? does anyone know how i can title they right?
thanks much.
btw, i would have posted in the PC section, but there is no place to add an attachment there...
Does a restart fix it? I"ve had that happen before, and sometimes restarting fixes it. If not then, well, I don't know. lol
Have you looked around in the disk management tool for xp? Im not sure but i think there might be a way in there.
i couldn't remember if i had restarted my computer in a while, so i just did, but unfortunately, it's still the same.
i also looked in the computer management section, but couldn't find anything to change that description... could it just be i need to find my specific driver for each one, i've just been relying on xp's for these. they work fine, just not labled correctly.
btw, chichi, i have the home edition, maybe there is something but only in pro?
Well xp home is crap, lol. I dont know of the exact differences between the two but i dont think that would have anything to do with your problem. If you dont have the official drivers, go ahead and install them. It couldnt do any harm. Try removing any media from the drive too. That affects the drive name too.
Check under removeable storgae - libraries in computer management too. If you right click on the drive thats giving you problems it gives you an option to rename it. I dunno if that would work. Be careful not to screw anything up though, lol.
BTW are you using explorer or some other app in that screeny?
that's the standard win explorer in thumbnail view
Try updating your BIOS.
Hope this helps. Back up the regestry first. (allways)
go here for more details:
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/912/
Open your registry and find the key below. If the key does not already exist then create it.
Within the main key create a new sub-key with a single letter representing the drive letter of the drive to be modified. (e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D])
Within the drive letter key create another sub-key called "DefaultIcon" (e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D\DefaultIcon]) and set the "(Default)" value to equal the fully qualified name of the icon file. If the file contains more that one icon follow it with a comma and the zero-based index of the icon (e.g. "c:\icons\myicons.dll,4").
Create another sub-key within the drive letter key called "DefaultLabel" (e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D\DefaultLabel]) and set it's "(Default)" value to equal the label for the drive letter (e.g. "My ZIP Drive").
For example:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Explorer
DriveIcons
D
DefaultIcon
(Default) = c:\icons\myicons.dll,4
DefaultLabel
(Default) = My ZIP Drive
You may need to restart Windows for the change to take effect, or press F5 to refresh My Computer.
i'll try that when i get home, but just looking at it, that should be what i need... thanks a lot
well, i tried it, and by theory it looked like it should have worked, but nothing changed when i was in win explorer... sigh....
Could be your icon cache needs refreshing. If you use icon packager then reapply your theme. Else you can just delete your iconcache file and reboot. It's somewhere in Documents and settings, but I can't remember where exactly.
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