Infotip on removable storage media

[Llibert]

OS: XP HE 5.1.2600 SP3 HP OEM, catalan MUI, Windows classic style.

First please excuse me for my English, not my language, but I cann't get any
piece of advice from my native group although I posted there repeatedly.

My local disks as well as my CD/DVD drives, folders and files, show an
infotip when the mouse hovers thereon.
However, my USB pendrives and my MMC/SD memory cards do not shown any
infotip by this method.
I tried a NTFS format instead of FAT/32 but this didn't help.
What is the reason? How can I manage so that ALL of my local and removable
drives show an infotip reporting total size and free space -as seen in
Properties-, assuming that this is possible? If not, a simple confirmation
will also be appreciated. Thank you in advance for your reply.

 

[Andrew E.]

Try run,type: diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click on a drive,go to actions,all,
select: "make active" Exit msc when thru.

 

[Llibert]

Thank you for your suggestion, but it doesn't work, at least for me. In fact,
a similar option "make (partition) active" found in diskmgmt.msc is not
available (dim grey) for the pendrive.

 

[Tim Meddick]

I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want.

But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not display
Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active
should be greyed out in Disk Management.

Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable.

I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as it
is on fixed disks?"

But the facts are that they aren't.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want.

But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not display
Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active
should be greyed out in Disk Management.

Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable.

I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as it
is on fixed disks?"

But the facts are that they aren't.

Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I
don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in
Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive,
just as with fixed ones.

So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you
check it one more time?

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want.

But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not display
Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active
should be greyed out in Disk Management.

Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable.

I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as it
is on fixed disks?"

But the facts are that they aren't.

Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I
don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in
Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive,
just as with fixed ones.

So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you
check it one more time?

WinXP Home, SP3, no display for flash drives.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want.

But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not display
Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active
should be greyed out in Disk Management.

Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable.

I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as it
is on fixed disks?"

But the facts are that they aren't.

Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I
don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in
Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive,
just as with fixed ones.

So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you
check it one more time?

WinXP Home, SP3, no display for flash drives.

Thanks. So XP and 7 must be different in that regard.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:41:36 -0000, "Tim Meddick"


I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want.

But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not display
Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active
should be greyed out in Disk Management.

Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable.

I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as it
is on fixed disks?"

But the facts are that they aren't.


Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I
don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in
Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive,
just as with fixed ones.

So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you
check it one more time?

WinXP Home, SP3, no display for flash drives.

Thanks. So XP and 7 must be different in that regard.

So we have at least one documented improvement. :>)

 

[Llibert]

Thank you again for the attention that all of you paid to my question. I
realize that in the meantime we must resign ourselves to click on context
menu, Properties, just for pendrives and memory cards. Maybe I'll see a fix
before migrating to other OS versions ...

 

[Tim Meddick]

Ken, despite what [some] other people may say about me, I do make quite an effort to
see that what I post is firmly grounded in fact.

I spent some time looking at the effect when I answered this post, but have noticed
it before and found it very annoying.

I have made many customizations to XP by "hacking" my way around the registry but, as
yet, have not found a way of making Removable Drives display "Total size" and "Free
space" as an "InfoTip" as is the case with Fixed Disks. But I am still searching....

Indeed, Win7 seems to be accomplished in the little "fixes" XP needed!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want.

But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not
display
Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active
should be greyed out in Disk Management.

Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable.

I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as
it
is on fixed disks?"

But the facts are that they aren't.

Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I
don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in
Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive,
just as with fixed ones.

So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you
check it one more time?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Ken, despite what [some] other people may say about me, I do make quite an effort to
see that what I post is firmly grounded in fact.

Tim, I'm sure you do. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Nevertheless,
if you're like me, you can make a mistake occasionally; none of us is
perfect. Because Windows 7 was unlike what you said XP was, I simply
asked whether you were sure you hadn't made a mistake.

But thank you for verifying it.

I spent some time looking at the effect when I answered this post, but have noticed
it before and found it very annoying.

I have made many customizations to XP by "hacking" my way around the registry but, as
yet, have not found a way of making Removable Drives display "Total size" and "Free
space" as an "InfoTip" as is the case with Fixed Disks. But I am still searching....

Indeed, Win7 seems to be accomplished in the little "fixes" XP needed!

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

I cannot tell you how to accomplish what you want.

But I can tell you that both the effect that Removable Drives [Class] do not
display
Total and Free Space (as InfoTips) and that the option to Make Partition Active
should be greyed out in Disk Management.

Both of these behaviours is normal if undesirable.

I too think; "why shouldn't free-space be displayed on Removable Drives, just as
it
is on fixed disks?"

But the facts are that they aren't.

Interesting. I had never noticed this, so I wanted to check it. I
don't have an XP machine handy to check it on, so I only checked in
Windows 7. In Windows 7, free space is displayed on removable drive,
just as with fixed ones.

So, if you don't mind my asking, are you sure of what you say? Can you
check it one more time?