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Blue hard drive stuffs?
Name: Avun Date: April 12, 2005 at 17:04:09 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 512/2.6
Comment:
I installed a 10 GB HD into my computer and it picke dup and installed perfectly but... in my computer where it says F disk its in.. blue? and when I put files in it their titles are in.. blue?... Is this some sort of warning or something? Because iv never had this happen before to me. Lol
Name: per Date: April 12, 2005 at 17:10:44 Pacific
Reply:
You evidently told xp to compress the disk and/or the files. Blue files are compressed files/folders.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dr. Nick Date: April 12, 2005 at 17:16:24 Pacific
Reply:
To change it back to normal, right click the drive in question, and choose Properties. Uncheck the box labled "Compress drive to save disk space". Click OK.
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Response Number 3
Name: Avun Date: April 12, 2005 at 17:17:49 Pacific
Reply:
Will this effect performance at all? Im just going to use it for my P2P downloading stuffs such as music.
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Response Number 4
Name: Dr. Nick Date: April 12, 2005 at 17:24:58 Pacific
Reply:
Compressed files will take a little longer to save and read. If you have plenty of space there's no reason to keep them compressed. If you ever need more, you can always re-compress them.
Besides, files like MP3s, WMA, movies and programs don't compress very good anyway.
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Response Number 5
Name: per Date: April 12, 2005 at 17:25:44 Pacific
Reply:
It will speed it up as xp will not have to decompress the file to use it.
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