Hard Drive partition naming problems...

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Posted by ali92 on Nov-04-2002 20:16:

Hard Drive partition naming problems...

I ran CHKDSK (ScanDisk for those who don't have Windows XP) a few days ago on my partition named "WinXP-Corp-OS" and CHKDSK "couldn't open the volume". When I renamed it to "WINXP_CORP__OS", everything went fine. Why did this happen? Is it because certain characters are not allowed when naming partitions/volumes or is it because my name was too long? Can someone tell me what the limit of the number of characters for volume labels is and exactly what characters are NOT allowed? THANKS!

Posted by TrAZ on Nov-04-2002 20:32:

not allowed hyphens bud

Posted by ali92 on Nov-05-2002 03:00:

quote:
Originally posted by TrAZ
not allowed hyphens bud

Anything else that's not allowed?

Posted by Fir3start3r on Nov-05-2002 22:11:

quote:
Originally posted by ali92
Anything else that's not allowed?

Probably the usual # % ^ & $ type letters...