We have a product ,while doing some operation we found this error "Logical disk 'C:' was not found" . When i checked my "C" folder i saw its named as 'New Volume (C:)' , but when i changed to 'Local Disk (C:)' , the error which i was getting gone. Can any body tell me the reason behind it.
These all are my doubts
First one is, if 'C' folder name is 'New Volume (C:) ' what does 'New Volume' stands is it simply a folder name? then what does (C:) stands is it the one understood by OS?
Second is if 'C' folder name is 'Local Disk (C:) ' what does 'Local Disk' stands is it simply a folder name? then what does (C:) stands
2 Answers
I'd be willing to bet that it's a sheer coincidence or, in changing the name, you fixed some other underlying error. Volume Names don't really have any meaning beyond a friendly reference, and there's no difference between a volume called "New Volume", "Local Disk" or "Dans Hard Drive".
The drive letter on the other hand - this is how Windows references different volumes. So, say you have two hard drives (Or two partitions, they're the same for this explanation), then you may have two drives called
C: and D:
You'll rarely see and A: and B: due to legacy requirements - these always used to be the floppy disks.
You'll also notice that every other drive, such as CD-ROMS, DVD-ROMS, USB flash drives and occasionally MP3 players etc will also have a letter.
Each volume must have a unique letter in order to be accessed by Windows. You can customise these, and even remove them*, but that's out of scope.
*Removing the letter will make the volume inaccessible, but you can still see the volume in Disk Management, and assign a letter to it etc.
5"New Volume" is just a standard name that an english version of Windows uses for drives that have an empty drive name.
Also the drive name is a little bit from a folder name. The drive name is just for human readablility, all references to a drive should happen by the drive letter, I dont even know if windows API has a way to find a drive by name...
Also "Local Disk" is NOT the same as "Logical disk". Besides the name you gave your partition here an explanation for the both terms:
- Local Disk: Any partition that is on any kind of mass storage that is currently wired up with your computer. It can be on a built in harddrive or on a USB-Stick.
- Logical Disk: Any mounted device that is or is not directly wired up with your PC, the above examples are also logical disks, but a network drive for example is a logical disk but NOT a Local Disk.
