Hard Drive Recognition Question

[Thom]

I recently built a new system and have 3 drives installed. 1 drive has XP
Pro OS. 1 Drive has Vista 64Bit OS. And the third drive is a NTFS Data Drive.

Whenever I access the 3rd drive from either XP Pro or Vista 64bit OS - the
drive is highlighted in blue writing rather than the standard black writing
drives are normally seen as when opening the My Computer tab.

I'm curious to know what this means. Is there a problem with the drive? Or
is it just a different way of categorizing the drive in Windows? I don't
have a problem accessing the files on the drive from XP or Vista, but the
blue highlighting persists. I had this issue with an external drive at one
point too and could never find any information on what it meant, though the
drive performed fine.

Anyone out there able to assist or point me to where I could find an answer?

 

[Thom]

The drive in question is a 750 Gig 7200RPM with a 32Meg Cache HD. The Vista
OS is the same drive and the XP OS is a 500Gig 7200RPM 16Meg Cache HD

 

[DL]

Files shown in Blue usually mean they are compressed, but the HD?

 

[philo]

Files shown in Blue usually mean they are compressed, but the HD?

That's correct...and with an NTFS drive there is no problem with compressed
files...
it's not like the compressed volumes of fat16 which were unsafe

 

[Jason]

Because FAT16 'compressed' the drive into one drive letter.