I cant seem to find why I get this error, as this property of Win32_logicaldisk is read/write according to MSDN Docs.

VolumeName

Data type: string
Access type: Read/write

Volume name of the logical disk.

Constraints: Maximum 32 characters.

 

 

this code errors on my XP and Vista box

 

$d = gwmi win32_logicaldisk

$d[1].volumename = "My C Drive"

$d[1].psbase.put()

 

it errors with

 

Exception calling "Put" with "0" argument(s): ""

 

Any help would be appreciated. 

 

Generally, you don't try to change the name of the property itself. You call Put() with the name of the property you want to change, and the new value.

[edit] Correction, sorry, I was thinking ADSI. That should work - is this a remote system? What version of Windows?

Thanks for the quick response.
Interesting because that code is pretty much verbatim from Bruce Payette's book.

Maybe you could provide an example of how you would use the put method don?

Actually, I wasn't reading your syntax correctly :).

This worked on my system:

$disks = gwmi win32_logicaldisk
$disk = $disks[1] # This is my C: drive
$disk.volumename = "TEST"
$disk.put()

This is on a Win2008 system, against the local system. Things might behave differently against a remote system or against a different operating system version.