
That might come in handy if you have lots of alternative drives. So with this extension you can add new titles, or labels, to your drives. Old in when we used Windows 7, there is a workaround to change the GUID volume by Regedit but for windows 10 is not. You can also add new labels to any other drive much the same. Thanks All for your help i will try and inform you, My purpose for changing Volume GUID because we have a backup application depends on Volume GUID, if the GUID on the volume changed, the application will fail to take the backup. You’ll find the C drive now includes the label you entered in Command Prompt. Now press the Return key in Command Prompt, open Windows Explorer and Computer folder. As such, enter that in the Command Prompt as in the shot below, but with an alternative label.

However, doing that now will likely cause Windows to not boot. You would go into the BIOS and change the boot order so that the SSD is first. New label would then become the title of the C drive. The disk numbering is based on the boot order of the drives. As such, you enter label followed by the drive letter and then input the alternative title.įor example, to edit the C drive’s label you would enter the following: label C:New label. Then you need to enter the label syntax into the Command Prompt. Alternatively, you could press the Win + R hotkey and enter cmd in Run. Select CMD on the Start menu to open the window below.

WINDOWS CHANGE DISK NUMBER HOW TO
How to change the disk drive name or label in Windows Command Promptįirst, open the MS Command Prompt by entering cmd in Start menu search box. This is how you can do that with the MS Command Prompt. However, you can add entirely new labels to the C drive and others. Each of your drives in Windows have titles (or labels).
