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Rename a USB Stick or other Hard Drive
Updated: Dec 2, 2020
To make identifying your USB stick or hard drives easier you can rename them.
Eg: Backup - Pics 2020 - Xmas2020 - My Stuff - Purple USB and so on


1 / Open This PC

2 / Select the drive you want to rename (Single Left Click)
3 / Click Computer

4 / Click Rename
This will highlight the drive rename box and allow you to change its name

5 / Name the drive as required
eg: Purple, My stuff, Xmas 2020
6 / Once you have renamed the drive click on a blank part of the screen,
your drive is now named as you need
Right Click Method

Instead of selecting the drive with a single click (Step 2 above)
"Right" click the drive and then left click rename
Then perform steps 5 and 6 as above
There are other ways to rename a drive using either command prompt, drive manager or the drive properties screen, the two options above should be easyest