Vista Tutorial - partition with vista disk management console, leaves blue letterin

12-31-2007

after shrinking c: drive i was surprised to find it created another drive
rather than increasing my d: drive, nethertheless, my puzzling query is why
am i able to move files back and forth, yet on c: and D: files and folders
are in black, yet on newly created F; drive the lettering is in blue? any
ideas why?

12-31-2007

John wrote:

Quote:

> after shrinking c: drive i was surprised to find it created another drive
> rather than increasing my d: drive, nethertheless, my puzzling query is why
> am i able to move files back and forth, yet on c: and D: files and folders
> are in black, yet on newly created F; drive the lettering is in blue? any
> ideas why?

It will do exactly as you tell it to do.

As to the blue...do you have compression enabled?
That's probably the reason

01-01-2008

"philo" wrote:

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> John wrote:

Quote:

> > after shrinking c: drive i was surprised to find it created another drive
> > rather than increasing my d: drive, nethertheless, my puzzling query is why
> > am i able to move files back and forth, yet on c: and D: files and folders
> > are in black, yet on newly created F; drive the lettering is in blue? any
> > ideas why?

>
>
>
> It will do exactly as you tell it to do.
>
>
> As to the blue...do you have compression enabled?
> That's probably the reason
>

"DOH" sometimes the smallest oversite can be so embarrassing, Thank you,
Philo... and a happy new year to you : )

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John Guest n/a posts	partition with vista disk management console, leaves blue letterin after shrinking c: drive i was surprised to find it created another drive rather than increasing my d: drive, nethertheless, my puzzling query is why am i able to move files back and forth, yet on c: and D: files and folders are in black, yet on newly created F; drive the lettering is in blue? any ideas why?
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12-31-2007	#2 (permalink)
philo Guest n/a posts	Re: partition with vista disk management console, leaves blue letterin John wrote: Quote: > after shrinking c: drive i was surprised to find it created another drive > rather than increasing my d: drive, nethertheless, my puzzling query is why > am i able to move files back and forth, yet on c: and D: files and folders > are in black, yet on newly created F; drive the lettering is in blue? any > ideas why? It will do exactly as you tell it to do. As to the blue...do you have compression enabled? That's probably the reason
My System Specs

01-01-2008	#3 (permalink)
John Guest n/a posts	Re: partition with vista disk management console, leaves blue lett "philo" wrote: Quote: > John wrote: Quote: > > after shrinking c: drive i was surprised to find it created another drive > > rather than increasing my d: drive, nethertheless, my puzzling query is why > > am i able to move files back and forth, yet on c: and D: files and folders > > are in black, yet on newly created F; drive the lettering is in blue? any > > ideas why? > > > > It will do exactly as you tell it to do. > > > As to the blue...do you have compression enabled? > That's probably the reason > "DOH" sometimes the smallest oversite can be so embarrassing, Thank you, Philo... and a happy new year to you : )
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