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    Hello,

    so I've been trying out build 7100 for a few days on my system, which includes quite a bunch of hard drives (usually around 8 of them) and ever since I got to run Windows 7 for the first time, most HDDs are listed as "Local Disk" in its explorer, while they're obviously supposed to be named something else (cap 1 : http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4127/explorernolabels.png).

    The thing is, even when I try to rename them, nothing changes in explorer. But there's a twist. If I have a look at the disk management utility in the control panel, everything looks fine! Labels are here and even get updated as I try to rename them through explorer although nothing seems to happen (cap 2 :.http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3874/diskmanager.png . Note that there's no drive letter assigned on XPMOO. It's perfectly normal, because it's instead connected as a virtual directory. Giving it a drive letter doesn't change anything to my current issue)

    I've really tried out a lot of things already (ie : matching the security permissions of a working disk with the other ones, checking out if this has to do with the various sata chipsets those drives depend from) and I'm definitely running out of ideas. I couldn't find any consistent link between the working drives until this hit me right in the face... The only drives actually showing their names in explorer are of the same size (but not the same exact model), which is also the biggest one (1 Tb)!

    Did anyone else ran into in this issue? Any ideas how to to fix this?

    Oh yeah, one last thing : this only seems to affect my Sata drives. My IDE DVD drive and my usb flashdrive show labels correctly. And just in case, all those drives are showing up fine when I boot into Windows XP instead.


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    System Specs :

    Abit QuadGT / Core2Duo E6750
    GeForce 8800GTS + GeForce 8600GS (3 monitors setup + tv)
    Various kinds of Western Digital hard drives.
    Saturday, May 09, 2009 12:00 AM
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    Have you had any more luck lately? Are you renaming the drives from within Explorer itself? Have you restarted? I believe I briefly had a problem like this but it seems to have fixed itself. I also have a SATA drive for the record. Let us know how things are going.

    - Nick
    Monday, June 08, 2009 3:38 PM
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    Hi, I noticed the same thing on my Laptop, but it is not limited to just the SATA drives. My usb flash drives also appear as 'Removable Disk'. It appears to have something to do with the autorun.inf file/folders I have on these devices. (At one stage this was the only effective way of preventing a certain virus from copying itself to the flash disks and running each time you plugged it into an unprotected PC around the campus.) If I remove these files/folders (which I am loathe to do) the drive labels appear as normal again the next time I boot or plug the usb drives in again. See if this is also the case for you. Cheers and good luck.
    Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:32 PM
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    Wow, thanks Kree! This definitely was the problem. I ran Flash Disinfectior few years ago, which left those autorun.inf folders on all the drives I had issues with. This explains why only my most recent hard drives were showing up properly in explorer (nothing to do with drive type or size). Anyway, it still looks like a bug in explorer to me.

    Also, those directories were a pain to remove manually. I just ended up using the following script for each drive :

    @echo off

set drv=C:\

attrib -A -H -S -R %drv%\autorun.inf
del \\.\%drv%\autorun.inf\"lpt3.This folder was created by Flash_Disinfector"
rd %drv%\autorun.inf
    Hope this will help others running into this issue.
    Monday, August 03, 2009 12:10 PM
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    I realise this is kind of an old topic, but it's very current in my experience and I'm glad I found it! Anyway, I have used Panda Vaccine on my flash drives so each of them has an AUTORUN.INF file. I used a different OS to remove said files and the drive labels showed up accurately (i.e., not "Removable Device"). But I'd rather have my flash drives protected... Is there any solution to have both at the same time--a vaccinated flash drive and an accurate disk label? Thanks for any help,

    Paul

    Wednesday, November 10, 2010 1:10 AM
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    Isn't Panda Antivirus Immunization a virus? Microsoft Essentials detected it as Nebular.R virus
    Monday, October 22, 2012 10:52 AM
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