partition with vista disk management console, leaves blue letterin

[John]

after shrinking c: drive i was surprised to find it created another drive
rather than increasing my d: drive, nethertheless, my puzzling query is why
am i able to move files back and forth, yet on c: and D: files and folders
are in black, yet on newly created F; drive the lettering is in blue? any
ideas why?

 

[philo]

after shrinking c: drive i was surprised to find it created another drive
rather than increasing my d: drive, nethertheless, my puzzling query is why
am i able to move files back and forth, yet on c: and D: files and folders
are in black, yet on newly created F; drive the lettering is in blue? any
ideas why?

It will do exactly as you tell it to do.


As to the blue...do you have compression enabled?
That's probably the reason

 

[John]

It will do exactly as you tell it to do.


As to the blue...do you have compression enabled?
That's probably the reason

"DOH" sometimes the smallest oversite can be so embarrassing, Thank you,
Philo... and a happy new year to you : )

 

[fumblefingers]

It will do exactly as you tell it to do.


As to the blue...do you have compression enabled?
That's probably the reason

More likely, the new partition is a logical partition in a new extended partition. Both
entities would be differently colored than primaries.