NO NAME rename query for partitioned Windows drive

[leon baroukh]

Having formatted a FAT32 drive for Windows XP Professional, using Boot Camp 1.1, it is appearing on my desktop as NO NAME. I'd like to change the name to something more meaningful, eg Windows HD, but am afraid that this will confuse the whole system and introduce me to a world of pain. Has anyone succesfully attempted this?

[chrisp]

Just go ahead and rename it. Windows only relies on the drive letter ( C: ), so it doesn't care about the volume label.

[Paul2660]

Change the drive letter within the disk management tools under system tools. In this case you don't want to do this.

Change the name by right clicking on the drive and renaming it.

As previously posted, it will not effect the OS.

Paul C.

[nylock10]

Is there any possible fix to make the font not uppercase all the time?

I rename it with lowercase letters, reboot and boom: the font changes from lowercase to all uppercase!

[bdj21ya]

I call mine XP. Problem solved. Sorry, I don't know of any for sure way to fix this. I think one way might be to convince OS X not to display the volume on your desktop, then add an alias of it to the desktop which you can name whatever you like.

[chrisp]

Is there any possible fix to make the font not uppercase all the time?

I rename it with lowercase letters, reboot and boom: the font changes from lowercase to all uppercase!
For a FAT32 partition, no. On a fundamental level, FAT file systems are uppercase-only. Only "long filenames", that is those beyond the original 8.3 format, are case-preserving. Unfortunately, long filenames don't apply to the volume label, which is still limited to 11 chars and uppercase.

Various Windows file managers convert uppercase filenames to mixed case or lower case on the fly for display. Mac OS and Linux generally don't do such things, so you get the uppercase names.

With NTFS, you can use mixed-case volume labels and they show up fine in Mac OS X, however you'll be limited to read-only access from the Mac OS X side.

[nylock10]

Dang... Any idea how to have Mac OS X unmount it at logon, but I can go into Disk Utility and mount it (for file-transfers)?

I found an article on it, but it was too frustrating.

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