{"id":7398,"date":"2021-11-24T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=7398"},"modified":"2021-11-24T00:32:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:32:23","slug":"usb-drives-lose-their-names-wont-accept-new-names-tags-lennovo-r61i","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/usb-drives-lose-their-names-wont-accept-new-names\/18702.html","title":{"rendered":"USB Drives Lose Their Names, Won&#8217;t Accept New Names? Tags: Lennovo \/ R61i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello All,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know whether the issue is with the hardware or the OS, but I thought I&#8217;d start off here. When I insert a USB Flash Drive I normally see the device name show up in my file explorer (I use xplorer\u00b2, but it happens with Windows File Explorer equally).<\/p>\n<p>In the past, and despite naming the device through its Property&#8217;s sheet, I&#8217;d occasionally get a flash drive without its user name, but with its Hardware ID, i.e., &#8220;Removable Disk (drv letter)&#8221;. All I&#8217;d have to do is execute a &#8220;rename&#8221; command or rename it in its Property&#8217;s sheet, and the device would keep its name in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, this has gotten much worse:<br \/>\n1. The external USB enclosed hard drive is now referred to as &#8220;Local Disk (drv letter)&#8221;.<br \/>\n2. Only the Boot Drive (C:\\) has retained its user name, so far.<br \/>\n3. No amount of renaming the drives, whether the external or any of my flash drives, results in the drive changing its designation back to the user-given name.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also done multiple re-boots (hard &amp; cold) and Log Offs \\ Log Ons to no avail. So far, my Lenovo X60 12&#8243; ultrabook, Lenovo R61i 14&#8243; Notebook, and my custom built High Performance Quad Core desktop are all affected to one degree or another.<\/p>\n<p>Grateful for any ideas or suggestions &#8211; any silver bullets out there?<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nBearPup<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><i>message edited by BearPup<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":1},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7398","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}