How do I programmatically change the label of a mapped drive?
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How might one control the label for mapped drives as they appear in My Computer, from the command line? The goal is to have the drive letter at the beginning of the phrase instead of the end, so when navigating with the keyboard one simply types the drive letter to jump to that item in the list. So, for example: net use x: \\servername\skunkworks will show this in My Computer: skunkworks on 'Long descriptive name of file server (servername)' (X:) but what we want is something like: X: Skunkworks...
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You can actually change this per drive mapping with a name of your choice. We do this if customers want...
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Had a hard drive fail on one of my machines that hosted a mapped network drive to a 1TB Western Digital drive I had with about 500gb of important data on it. So I pulled the drive out and put it in my main machine, again as a slave, so I could work on...
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What shows up under 'Disk Management'? You can get to it by typing "diskmgmt.msc" into the...
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Dunno exactly what the problem is but usually I have 3 drives- 2 partitions of the hard disk and the other is the CD drive, but now there is an extra f: drive referring to the same CD drive. When I insert a CD, the label is shown by both the drivers...
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f: drive is usually a removable drive like a usb stick or a camera memory card or something like that...
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If you go into my computer you can right click on the drive and choose rename. Hopefully this helps.
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A thought experiment about information and behaviour in the market: if, like nutrition labeling for food producers, supermarkets were required by some new legislation to state the markup of each item on the price tag, what would happen? Would consumer...
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This information is already essentially public, at least for publicly traded companies. Maybe not at...
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I open the USB and it of course has nothing on it, I then create a new text document and name it autorun.inf once I do that I open it and it opens up notepad on the usb, I then type [autorun] label=My USB DRIVE ICON=linux.ico I do all of this and then...
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What exactly are you trying to do, your question is not clear. You ARE running Linux, right? If you...
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ok, so i just installed windows xp on my laptop, and when i plug in any flash/ external hard drive, it wont recognize it, and dont go saying go to computer, right click-> manage,-> disk management, and shoose change label, or sumthin like that...
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Well i wanted to change my pc's file system from fat32 to ntfs because many games ask for ntfs.. so i searched on net and i got these steps: To convert an existing FAT or FAT32 volume to NTFS, follow these steps: Click Start, point to All Programs, point...
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Well I am not sure what you did but in my computer class and my A+ curruicliam stats that going to Fat...
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Don't answer if you don't know... Telling me 'Just configure it' doesn't help!!!! I have a mac (imac osx) on a network that I used to use to access a drive that was also on the network. The router was recently changed and where I had the network drive...
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I would like to be able to access files on my mapped network drive remotely on my ipad. In particular, I would like to access entire folders of files that change somewhat on a weekly basis in places where I may not be able to get internet access or do...
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SpiderOak has an offline sync folder system. It'll keep a bunch of machines synced so they all have...
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