Finding Volume Label for External Western Digital Drive

[Grouser]

A New 1TB external drive was delivered to me on Saturday August 8, and is installed. I see that this drive is in FAT32 format, so propose to change this to NTFS using the MS instructions in kb307881.

Every time I try to enter a volume label after the 'convert' command entry (convert g: /fs:ntfs), I am told that it is wrong

The external drive is recognised as Drive G, but the volume label found when right clicking this in My Computer and choosing properties, and which starts 'WD' is apparently wrong.

How please can I find out this missing information?

[Jon]

Tried changing the volume name to see if that makes any difference? Any particular reason you need to save whatever's on the drive already (since MS does recommend a backup before conversion)? If there's a space, mixed upper and lower case, or a long (over 11 characters, from memory) label, try enclosing it in quotes.

[Grouser]

No, I don't need to save what is on the WD external drive Jon as I can always back up the system again, as that is what this drive is for.

Having registered the new drive with Western Digital, I have tried the drive serial number, then the model/order number - all alas to no avail.

I installed the drive last Saturday (August 8, 2009), but wanted this to be NTFS, which I believe is more stable than FAT32.

[Jon]

Yes, have you tried renaming the drive though?

[Grouser]

Many thanks Jon for your helpful thoughts!

Before attempting the suggested renaming of the new external drive, I tried just entering 'Elements' (without the quotes) for the volume label, and the conversion from FAT 32 to NTFS went ahead.