Adding Volume Labels to Optical Drives: Vista64

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Hey guys

Is it possible to add a volume label to Optical Drives as it is with HDDs? It's just one optical drive is set to region 1, and another to region 2, and it'd be useful to be able to differentiate them. I'd still like the dynamic label name to be active for when media is inserted, though.

Any clues?
 
you can do it hacking the registry. open regedit and browse to

HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\driveicons

now right click on "driveicons" and select new>key. name this key after the drive letter of the drive you want to change. now right click on this new key you've created and select new>key again. name it "DefaultLabel". now edit the default value in the right hand pane to whatever you want it to be. open explorer (you might need f5 to refresh). repeat for additional drives.

tada :p

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that's odd, the instructions i found were for xp/2000 and i tried them on win7. i assumed it would be there on vista. you definitely browsed HKLM and not HKCU??

anyway, it should be safe to manually create it. :)

here's where you should be....

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Perfect! Cheers dude. I'd tried creating them earlier before my second post but was putting semicolons on the drive letter. Cheers for the screenies :)

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Surely the real question here is why you have two-single region drives and haven't just flashed them with an rpc1 firmware to allow unlimited region changes?
 
Is that the real question? For the price of an optical drive, who can really be bothered to change the region on the drive every time they put a disc in?
 
DampCat said:
Is that the real question? For the price of an optical drive, who can really be bothered to change the region on the drive every time they put a disc in?
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If only there were a free piece of software out there that automated this task for you
 
Or i could just pick up an optical drive and pug it in. Much simpler, wouldn't you agree, and then not have to worry about installing any software, or adding any firmware hacks, or worrying about the compatibility of the firmware hacks and if it would even work with the optical drives I own in the first place?

Honestly, I genuinely don't understand how it could be any simpler than how i've done it. In any case, it isn't the point of this thread, so kindly take your unhelpful, unrelated sarcasm elsewhere :)
 
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DampCat said:
Honestly, I genuinely don't understand how it could be any simpler than how i've done it. In any case, it isn't the point of this thread, so kindly take your unhelpful, unrelated sarcasm elsewhere :)
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Actually, I was trying to suggest an alternative way of doing things.

One reason to consider it is that Region 4 DVDs can be had quite cheap, but then you'd need 3 DVD drives.
 
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