Can the hard disk named "\" cause it not to load?

Hello Everyone,
Machine will not load (G4 12" running 10.4. After it starts, the apple icon appears then the spinning progress wheel, and that is it. It will not finish loading.
I used Disk Warrior, and drive genius and nothing worked. I booted the computer from the boot up disk utility disk. When the program was running I noticed the hard disk was named "\" which is the back slash symbol. I was wonder if having the hard disk named this could cause the computer not to boot up and if yes, then how do I change the name?
Thank you.
Marco

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