Possible problem after formatting my secondary HDD

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Happy New Years to all:

I recently formatted my secondary (250GB, Samsung) hard drive. After the
format the drive letter and contents now are shown in a blue font, and all my
other drives have a black font. When I formatted it, I selected the "enable
disk compression" option. Could this be the reason the text is now blue? The
drive appears to be fully functional otherwise. Any insight given, as to why
the font is now blue, would be appreciated.
 
Porker said:
Happy New Years to all:

I recently formatted my secondary (250GB, Samsung) hard drive. After the
format the drive letter and contents now are shown in a blue font, and all my
other drives have a black font. When I formatted it, I selected the "enable
disk compression" option. Could this be the reason the text is now blue? The
drive appears to be fully functional otherwise. Any insight given, as to why
the font is now blue, would be appreciated.
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The blue color indicates compression. If you don't want it (and there
really is no need for compression on such a large drive), disable it.


Malke
 
Thanks Malke and Michael for your quick responses.
I think I'll format again without compression.
Is there anywhere in the XP help that would have given me the answer to this
question? I looked there and in the knowledge base's @ Microsoft.com and
found no answer. I find it very frustrating wasting time looking for the
resolution or explanation to simple problems such as this.
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Kind Regards,
Porker


Michael Walraven said:
Yup,
Blue -> compressed
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Oops..Doh..Cancel that format. Found that I was able to uncompress the drive
by right clicking on the drive in Disk Management and de-selecting the
compress disk option.

Thanks again for the help.
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Kind Regards,
Porker


Porker said:
Thanks Malke and Michael for your quick responses.
I think I'll format again without compression.
Is there anywhere in the XP help that would have given me the answer to this
question? I looked there and in the knowledge base's @ Microsoft.com and
found no answer. I find it very frustrating wasting time looking for the
resolution or explanation to simple problems such as this.
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