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Another hard drive issue - help!
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hj2k_x
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Also, ever since I installed the 250GB the first time, it appeared as blue in disk management - and when going into it in My Computer. I thought nothing of that really, but maybe it does make a difference?
hj2k_x
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Any risk to the 250GB of data on there and you see what I said about it showing up as blue...?
Dynamic disks are tied to the a machine, and share information with other dynamic disks on a machine; for example RAID info. Moving it to another machine, the disk realizes its been moved and disables itself to protect the data. You need to import it into the new PC/configuration. You should not loose any info, if was not part of a RAID group before. Should be safe....
hj2k_x
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WOW, that has fixed it!
Apologies for all the fuss. But google was not giving me any results as I didn't know what to search for.
Thanks for all the help, people! Yay, my drive is ALIVE
It is still BLUE, though. does that matter?
Glad you came right
I personally don't like using Dynamic disks, because there is no benefit (unless you need the functionality that it provides). My advice would be to move everything off, format and recreate it as a basic disk.
I personally don't like using Dynamic disks, because there is no benefit (unless you need the functionality that it provides). My advice would be to move everything off, format and recreate it as a basic disk.
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
Glad you came right
I personally don't like using Dynamic disks, because there is no benefit (unless you need the functionality that it provides). My advice would be to move everything off, format and recreate it as a basic disk.
Cool, I shall do that tonight...
it is blue because it si compressed using ntfs compression
"By default, the name of a compressed hard disk or folder appears in a blue font in Windows Explorer instead of the standard black font. After you turn off NTFS compression for the target, the name returns to the standard black font."
"By default, the name of a compressed hard disk or folder appears in a blue font in Windows Explorer instead of the standard black font. After you turn off NTFS compression for the target, the name returns to the standard black font."
hj2k_x
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PostmanPot
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Phew.. 
hj2k_x
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Phew..
Tell me about it! Two 250GBs in two days would have been too much.
I am sending the broken one back to Prophecy - hopefully the warranty will cover whatever is wrong with it.