Naming Your Drive with a Volume Label

Although you may be accustomed to putting a paper label on disks, both hard disks and floppy disks can have magnetically recorded labels, known as volume labels. Volume labels can help you identify disks. You can read the volume label for a disk by looking at the disk's properties.

In the preceding section, you learned how to create a volume label when you format a disk. If you want to create or change a volume label on a previously formatted disk, follow these steps:

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Open the Explorer or the My Computer window.
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Select the drive with the volume name you want to change.
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Choose File, Properties. Alternatively, right-click the drive and choose Properties from the shortcut menu. The Properties sheet appears, ...

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