Give Drives Custom Name?

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Gronnie
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Give Drives Custom Name?

#1 Post by Gronnie » Tue Feb 11, 2014 1:01 am

I have multiple optical drives of the same model, and I was wondering if there is a way to change how the drive shows up in the MakeMKV GUI. When I have several drives all named the same thing, it can be hard to keep track of which is which, even after lots of practice. If I could name them Drive 1, Drive 2, Drive 3, Drive 4 or something it would be much easier. Is there any way to do this or could it be implemented?

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Alex

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Re: Give Drives Custom Name?

#2 Post by jcsmith900 » Tue Feb 11, 2014 3:05 am

What kind of computer do you have?

I use a mac and I'm able to rename a drive by pressing "Command + I" to get info and then under "Name & Extension" I can just type whatever name I want to.

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Re: Give Drives Custom Name?

#3 Post by Gronnie » Tue Feb 11, 2014 3:19 am

In Windows 7 the only way to name removable storage is to add a label at the end of the drive description. I have done this, but MakeMKV only shows the device model #, and not the label I added.

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Re: Give Drives Custom Name?

#4 Post by Gronnie » Tue Feb 11, 2014 3:46 am

In addition to adding drive labels, I tried changing drive letters assigned to drives, and also which SATA ports they are plugged into as well. If I could even just get it so that the top drive is first, next drive down is second, etc that would be helpful. I just can't figure out how the GUI decides to order the drives.

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Re: Give Drives Custom Name?

#5 Post by mike admin » Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:17 am

The easiest fix would be to show the drive letter. Can you please tell how do you add the label to the drive? Where?

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Re: Give Drives Custom Name?

#6 Post by Gronnie » Tue Feb 18, 2014 12:16 am

mike admin wrote:The easiest fix would be to show the drive letter. Can you please tell how do you add the label to the drive? Where?
It's a registry hack.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/66 ... ename.html

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