How to clear drive names/labels from windows?

Question

I renamed a drive to m500 and another to m600 and now every time I plug in ANY external drive, windows will label it to m500 or m600.
I've tried 4 different drives of varying sizes (130gb - 5tb), same behavior.

Sometimes it'll duplicate too, so D: m500 and E: m500.

Guessing where windows stores the label info got corrupted but not sure how to clear that out?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 07 '22 at 10:41

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Turned out it's stored as a registry entry here:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons

$Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons$

I deleted both entries for D and E (leaving \DriveIcons empty) and rebooted.
That fixed it for me.

answered Jan 07 '22 at 10:41

House3272

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How to clear drive names/labels from windows?

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