XP Pro - Format blue writing

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Rock

HI,

I have just added a 300GB external HD and formated it, but for some reason the
file list in explorer is in blue. Why is this?

Thanks
 
You have XPs on the fly file compression enabled, there is an option to
check when your format the drive to do this.

To disable, right click on the root of the drive and deselect it and
confirm you want to aply to all files and folders. Obviously make sure
you have enough space on the drive to store the data already on it in
uncompressed state.



Rock wrote:
> HI,
>
> I have just added a 300GB external HD and formated it, but for some
> reason the file list in explorer is in blue. Why is this?
>
> Thanks
 
Zeno wrote:
> You have XPs on the fly file compression enabled, there is an option to
> check when your format the drive to do this.
>
> To disable, right click on the root of the drive and deselect it and
> confirm you want to aply to all files and folders. Obviously make sure
> you have enough space on the drive to store the data already on it in
> uncompressed state.
>
>
>
> Rock wrote:
>> HI,
>>
>> I have just added a 300GB external HD and formated it, but for some
>> reason the file list in explorer is in blue. Why is this?
>>
>> Thanks

Ah haaa.

Thanks.. Knew there was a simple answer somewhere!!
 
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