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Offline jbraveman

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Windows XP - Blue lettering External HD
« on: September 10, 2006, 08:57:23 AM »

I recently bought a 320g seagate internal SATA drive and put it into a kingwin sata to usb 2.0 enclosure.  I partitioned it and formated as an ntfs.  The first format failed half-way through and the second format went fine.  The drive seems to work fine.  The wierd thing is that the lettering is blue when I look a list of my drives in My Computer.  Also all the file and folder names that I copy onto the drive are blue. 

Does anyone know if there is particular signficance to this or just a benign wierdness?
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Re: Windows XP - Blue lettering External HD
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2006, 11:54:43 AM »
WinXP can show files/folders that are encrypted or compressed in color. Check with the Windows folder. If you've d/l'd updates or service packs for install, you'll probably see all those folders in blue also.
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Re: Windows XP - Blue lettering External HD
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2006, 01:02:23 PM »
yes.  thank you very much.  It was driving me crazy.
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