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Setting a mixed-case volume label for a FAT32 drive on Windows

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Mar 15, 202612568 views
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When I try to set the volume label for my FAT32 USB drive the normal way (using Windows Explorer or Disk Management), the filesystem just makes the label uppercase when applying it. Is it possible at all to set a mixed-case volume label on the drive on Windows? I know there may be no real reason fo…

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Fix for: Setting a mixed-case volume label for a FAT32 drive on Windows

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From the Windows XP Documentation: For FAT volumes, volume labels are stored as uppercase regardless of whether they contain lowercase letters. NTFS volume labels retain and display the case used when the label was created.

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