Reformat in NTFS changed font to blue. How change font to black?

G

Guest

I re-formatted a data hard drive (80Gig):

1. No option to format as FAT32. Only NTFS.
Doesn't matter by why no choice to format as Fat32?
My other drives (20gig) offer Fat32 option?

2. The drive formatted as NTFS. No problems except the font on that drive is
now color blue. Why? How change font color of folders and files to back to
black?

Thanks.
 
N

NoNoBadDog!

If you had done *ANY* research at all, you would have learned that folders
that are in blue font are compressed.

Bobby
 
G

Guest

Well. Yes I've done a BIT of research on these newsgroups and found that
that the blue color is for compressed AND ntfs files and folders AND the way
to turn the blue color off is to go to Tools -> Folder Option -> View ->
Advanced Settings-> UNCHECK "Show encrypted and compressed NTFS files in
color".

So now my font color on the NTFS drive is black again. Thanks to these
newsgroups.

But the question remains why couldn't I format the 80gig hard drive as fat
32 only ntfs. (Not that it is important.)

Love youse all
Russ
 
N

NoNoBadDog!

Again, if you had done your research, you would have discovered the
limitations of the FAT32 system...meaning that there is a limit to the size
of a disk that can be formatted with FAT32...

Bobby
 
G

Guest

NoNoBadDog! said:
Again, if you had done your research, you would have discovered the
limitations of the FAT32 system...meaning that there is a limit to the size
of a disk that can be formatted with FAT32...

Bobby
 
G

Guest

NoNoBadDog! said:
Again, if you had done your research, you would have discovered the
limitations of the FAT32 system...meaning that there is a limit to the size
of a disk that can be formatted with FAT32...

Bobby




I am new to xp (did my first install yesterday) and found that if I wanted to put it on a fat32 partition I first had to format my 80GB HD using a win98 cd then I could install XP on the partition. Win 98 had no problem using the entire 80GB.
-unclebuck12-
 
R

Richard Urban

Fat32 has a maximum size limit of 32 gig when created and formatted within
Windows XP. To create a larger fat32 partition you would have to use a
program such as Partition Magic 8.01. This partition can then be fully
utilized in Windows XP.

--

Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :)
 
J

JimWae±

nOW THAT YOU KNOW WHAT BLUE MEANS, why would you not want to be reminded
that those folders are compressed?
 
S

Steve N.

NoNoBadDog! said:
Again, if you had done your research, you would have discovered the
limitations of the FAT32 system...meaning that there is a limit to the size
of a disk that can be formatted with FAT32...

Bobby

This is not a imitation of FAT32 system but a limitation imposed by
formatting FAT32 from Windows XP ans Windows 2000.

From:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q154997/

"FAT32 supports drives up to 2 terabytes in size."

Steve
 
A

Alex Nichol

Russ said:
I re-formatted a data hard drive (80Gig):

1. No option to format as FAT32. Only NTFS.
Doesn't matter by why no choice to format as Fat32?
My other drives (20gig) offer Fat32 option?

XP sets a limit of 32 GB on the size of partiton it will format to FAT
32 (though it will use a bigger one formatted by a different OS it is
not recommended to use FAT 32 at such sizes)
2. The drive formatted as NTFS. No problems except the font on that drive is
now color blue. Why? How change font color of folders and files to back to
black?

That normally indicates that the drive has been set to be compressed.
Unless you are *very* short of space this is not really a good idea.
In My Computer, r-click the drive, Properties, uncheck Compress this
drive to save space, and Apply. You can compress individual folders
where there will be useful saving, but most of the really big files -
JPG photos; MP3 or WMA Music, MPG or WMV video are already compressed to
the limits and trying to do more is likely to result in files actually
growing a bit
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Top