{"id":15861,"date":"2020-05-20T06:50:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=15861"},"modified":"2020-05-20T06:50:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T06:50:25","slug":"label-or-rename-hard-drive-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/label-or-rename-hard-drive-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Ways to Label or Rename Hard Drive in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each drive on your computer should have a unique and meaningful name, but they are usually named “Local Disk” or “New Volume” by default. The drive letters may change when a new disk is added, but you can have a persistent drive label. In this tutorial we’ll show you different ways to label or rename a hard drive in Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Rename Hard Drive from Context Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open File Explorer<\/a> and select the drive you want to rename and press F2<\/strong>, or right-click the drive and select “Rename<\/strong>” from the context menu.\n

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  2. Type a new name and press Enter to apply the change.<\/li>\n
  3. When you get a message saying: “Access Denied – You will need to provide administrator permission to rename this drive.<\/em>” click on Continue<\/strong>.\n

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    Method 2: Rename Hard Drive from Drive Properties<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Right-click on the target drive in File Explorer and select “Properties<\/strong>” from the context menu.\n

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    2. When the Properties window opens, type a new name in the text box and click OK<\/strong>.\n

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      Method 3: Rename Hard Drive from Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Open the Command Prompt as administrator<\/a>. Type the following command and hit Enter. Do not add quotation marks even if your new name contains space.
        \nlabel drive_letter: new_name<\/code><\/p>\n

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      2. This will change your drive label immediately.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Method 4: Rename Hard Drive from PowerShell<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Open an elevated PowerShell window<\/a> and run the following command. Replace “D<\/strong>” with your actual drive letter, and “My Backup<\/strong>” with the new drive name.
          \nSet-Volume -DriveLetter D -NewFileSystemLabel \"My Backup\"<\/code><\/p>\n

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        2. When it’s done, open File Explorer and you’ll see the drive with the new label.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          That’s all there is to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Each drive on your computer should have a unique and meaningful name, but they are usually named “Local Disk” or “New Volume” by default. The drive letters may change when a new disk is added, but you can have a persistent drive label. In this tutorial we’ll show you different ways to label or rename […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4468,4469,4467],"class_list":["post-15861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-change-drive-label-in-command-prompt","tag-how-to-change-drive-name","tag-rename-hard-drive-in-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15861"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15874,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15861\/revisions\/15874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}