External Firewire Hard Drive
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I have tried to get some help from microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware with no luck so I thought I would try my fellow cpians. I have a strange situation, I think, with an external hard drive. I have an 80GB external firewire hard drive which I connect to my Sony Vaio laptop running Windows XP Pro using a 6-pin to 4-pin cable. It appears that Windows has located the drive just fine because I have been able to initialize and format it and it shows up as drive F:. Two strange things are happening though. 1. All of the text in Windows explorer with regards to the external drive are blue. For example, the label "Disk (F:\)" in the "folders pane" is blue, the text for folders in the right pane are blue etc. Does this mean something? 2. If I start my computer with the hard drive connected and turned on Windows will run Check Disk in an endless loop. So, I have to start the computer, then when Windows is all booted up I can then turn on the hard drive. Does anyone have any insight into this? :confused: Mark Sanders
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I have tried to get some help from microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware with no luck so I thought I would try my fellow cpians. I have a strange situation, I think, with an external hard drive. I have an 80GB external firewire hard drive which I connect to my Sony Vaio laptop running Windows XP Pro using a 6-pin to 4-pin cable. It appears that Windows has located the drive just fine because I have been able to initialize and format it and it shows up as drive F:. Two strange things are happening though. 1. All of the text in Windows explorer with regards to the external drive are blue. For example, the label "Disk (F:\)" in the "folders pane" is blue, the text for folders in the right pane are blue etc. Does this mean something? 2. If I start my computer with the hard drive connected and turned on Windows will run Check Disk in an endless loop. So, I have to start the computer, then when Windows is all booted up I can then turn on the hard drive. Does anyone have any insight into this? :confused: Mark Sanders
Mark Sanders wrote: 1. All of the text in Windows explorer with regards to the external drive are blue. For example, the label "Disk (F:\)" in the "folders pane" is blue, the text for folders in the right pane are blue etc. Does this mean something? I think you will find that Windows has formatted the drive and enabled compression. To test this Right Click on the F:\ and then click on Properties. I think you will find that at the bottom there will be a selected check box next to Compress drive to save disk space. If you unselect this and click Apply and wait a while the compression capablity will be turned off and the colour will return to black. The blue colouring is caused by a selection made in Folder Options. Under the View tab is a selection Display compressed files and folders with alternate color. All in all harmless but best to turn it off as you have 80GB anyway and if you connect it to another computer it may not be able to read it. Mark Sanders wrote: 2. If I start my computer with the hard drive connected and turned on Windows will run Check Disk in an endless loop. So, I have to start the computer, then when Windows is all booted up I can then turn on the hard drive. No idea, sounds weird though. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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I have tried to get some help from microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware with no luck so I thought I would try my fellow cpians. I have a strange situation, I think, with an external hard drive. I have an 80GB external firewire hard drive which I connect to my Sony Vaio laptop running Windows XP Pro using a 6-pin to 4-pin cable. It appears that Windows has located the drive just fine because I have been able to initialize and format it and it shows up as drive F:. Two strange things are happening though. 1. All of the text in Windows explorer with regards to the external drive are blue. For example, the label "Disk (F:\)" in the "folders pane" is blue, the text for folders in the right pane are blue etc. Does this mean something? 2. If I start my computer with the hard drive connected and turned on Windows will run Check Disk in an endless loop. So, I have to start the computer, then when Windows is all booted up I can then turn on the hard drive. Does anyone have any insight into this? :confused: Mark Sanders
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No. In NT/2K/XP, it means "compressed to save space". ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
