Label a storage volume in Windows Compact 2013

Question

I have an (non-MFC) Windows application written in C++ (Visual Studio 2013) running on a small device running Windows Compact 2013.

The device has two storage volumes (internal flash memory and SD Card)

If I connect the device to a Windows PC via USB cable, the volumes are mounted and I can see them as two separate drives inside Windows Explorer. I am then able to change the label of each volume inside Explorer (right click on the drive -> Properties -> type in a new label)

I would like to have the ability to label the volumes from my application running on the device.

I have tried various Compact 2013 API calls without success (obviously the Compact API is far more restrictive than the full Win32 API).

I have even tried to call a script file to call the LABEL command. Also without success.

Can anyone offer me any advice about how to accomplish this? Any help would be much appreciated

Many thanks

Answer 1

In the end, the solution was surprisingly simple. I added an autorun.inf file to the root folder of the device with the following content

[autorun] 
label=My Label

This had exactly the effect that I was looking to achieve.