All about drive letters and drive names

Paras Bansal's hard drive has three partitions with the same name. I explain how to change drive letters and names, and why Paras' situation may be confusing, but not serious. In the Windows world, drives can be identified by their names (such as "Windows7_OS") and their drive letters (such as "C:"). The important thing to remember is that Windows really only cares about the drive letter. That has to be unique; you can't have two drives labeled E: on the same computer.  [Have a tech question? Ask PCWorld Contributing Editor Lincoln Spector. Send your query to answer@pcworld.com.] To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here