Windows 10: External harddisks can not be renamed

Discus and support External harddisks can not be renamed in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hello, I use many external harddisks. No problem in W7, after upgrade also no problem in W10. But now, all of a sudden, the given names/labels are not... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by wimyogya, Feb 19, 2019.

  1. WIMYOGYA
    wimyogya Win User

    External harddisks can not be renamed


    Hello,
    I use many external harddisks. No problem in W7, after upgrade also no problem in W10.
    But now, all of a sudden, the given names/labels are not displayed anymore.
    They get generic names/labels like Local Drive (H).
    Renaming them within W10 does not help.
    Nor do partition wizzards like Minitool Partition Wizzard or Paragon.
    Sometimes, after several trial/error attempts one or two given names appear.
    But at a next session they are back to the standard names again.

    What to do?
    Thanks,
    Wim

    :)
     
    wimyogya, Feb 19, 2019
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  2. NYENKLEE
    NyenKLee Win User

    Accessing external harddisk connected via USB

    How do I make a connected USB drive (ie, an external harddisk connected via a USB port) visible in the File Explorer?
     
    NyenKLee, Feb 19, 2019
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  3. AMD5750M
    amd5750m Win User
    rename inf

    I have a 7670m 1gb driver crimson legacy, how to rename my 7670m (which in driver detects as 7600m) to 8670m?

    I am something new in this I would appreciate it if you would give me all the steps since I am very interested

    I use win 7

    his is what I try to do but not rename these files

    Does someone have a step for newbies?

    this is more or less the idea in the link

    16.101.X [Pre-GCN driver pack]
     
    amd5750m, Feb 19, 2019
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  4. STEFAN CLOUDT
    Stefan Cloudt Win User

    External harddisks can not be renamed

    File History of files on external USB harddisk drive

    Hi,

    I have a external harddisk connected to my pc using USB. This drive contains personal files which I want to add to file history. I simply want that everytime I connect my external harddrive to my pc, that file history backs up the files on it to a location
    on the network. How do I do that?

    * I have file history working for files on an internal harddrive

    * I did add my external harddrive to the Documents library

    * I tried adding the folder on the external harddrive using the "Add a folder" using the windows 10 settings. But the folder seems to dissappear from the list after a while.

    Another detail: the disk is encrypted using DiskCryptor. Everytime I connect the drive windows says it has to be formatted. When I mount the drive by providing the key to DiskCryptor the drive becomes a valid one.
     
    Stefan Cloudt, Feb 19, 2019
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