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Drive Labeler

By on April 6, 2009 in Add-ins & Apps, Disk Management, WHS v1

Experience Level: Advanced

Drive Labeler updates the labels on the drives in the Storage tab of the Windows Home Server Console on the HP MediaSmart Server.

The drive labels are updated as follows:

  • Drives are correctly labeled as SATA rather than SCSI.
  • The drive bay location is appended to internal SATA drives
  • External SATA drives are correctly shown as External rather than Internal.

Developer: Jerry McCollom

More Info: Download | Support Forum

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Release History

v1.0.0.5

  • Corrects the display for non-storage pool drives


v1.0.0.4

  • Fixes a fat-finger logic error in the previous version.  I cleaned up my drive identifier detection code and have tested this version with internal and external drives to verify it works as advertised!


v1.0.0.3

  • Fixes an exception condition that could occur when external SATA drives are connected.

v1.0.0.2

  • Initial Release

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  • http://fasthair.blogspot.com/ fasthair

    Just wondering if this Add-On works on just the MSS or if it will work on a home built WHS box?

    fasthair

  • rmassey

    It didn’t work for me on my HomeGrown box. Look at the tutorials of how to edit your drive lables via RegEdit. I just did it and it works great