wrong HDD name

tarmo32

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Jul 6, 2016
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i replaced my laptops hdd due to previous one failing, everything else is ok exept device manager is telling me its name is old Toshiba MQ01ABD100, Why?
 
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I found out some time ago there are two hard-drive names, one we can affect easily in Windows' explorer's left side panel and the other, a long-winded geeky name. Is it the BIOS/UEFI or the HD that feeds that long-winded name to the Device Manager? I'd like to learn more about this.

RolandJS

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Mar 10, 2017
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I found out some time ago there are two hard-drive names, one we can affect easily in Windows' explorer's left side panel and the other, a long-winded geeky name. Is it the BIOS/UEFI or the HD that feeds that long-winded name to the Device Manager? I'd like to learn more about this.
 
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