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How to change drive label

The labels of disk drives(volumes) can be changed from windows command line using label command.  In the command, we need to specify the drive letter for which we need to change the label. Note that drive letter and drive label are different. In the below snapshot, drive letter is C: and drivel label is ‘Windows 7

Changing drive label
Command to change drive label:

label driveletter label

Example:
To set the label Windows for the drive C: the command is

label C: Windows

We can execute this command only from elevated administrator command prompt. Running the command from a normal command prompt would generate the below error.

C:\> label c: Windows
Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges.
You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode.

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  • Dkbt Opotumus

    There is no solution here?? What’s the fix?

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