[pchelpers] Re: Hard-drive renaming problem.

Hi PcCowboy,

Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 12:35:04 PM, you wrote:

P> I found a problem that I have never seen before.
P> This morning I uninstalled a program called "Mapsend Streets"
P> Came home for lunch and found my Harddrive G:Working was missing.
P> After a panic I found that it wasn't missing, it was renamed to G: 
P> Mapsend Streets.
P> Trying to rename it doesn't work.
P> Properties shows that is still has the name "Working"
P> Computer management shows that the name is "Working"
P> But Windows Explorer says that the name is "Mapsend Streets.

1. Have you restarted the computer?  Could be a caching issue

2. Check to see if there is an AUTORUN.INF file (could be hidden) in
the root of the drive. If there is, it might be extremely difficult to
get Windows to forget about the name, even after you delete the file.

-- 
Scott.



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