Infotip on removable storage media
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From: Llibert on 6 Mar 2010 12:30 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.
From: Andrew E. on 7 Mar 2010 01:16 Try run,type: diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click on a drive,go to actions,all, select: "make active" Exit msc when thru. "Llibert" wrote: > 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.
From: Llibert on 7 Mar 2010 06:15 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. "Andrew E." wrote: > Try run,type: diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click on a drive,go to actions,all, > select: "make active" Exit msc when thru. > > "Llibert" wrote: > > > 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.
From: Tim Meddick on 7 Mar 2010 11:41 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. :-) "Llibert" <Llibert(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:177A1FC1-F66D-40CE-8EA2-0B4D0BECC46C(a)microsoft.com... > 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. > > "Andrew E." wrote: > >> Try run,type: diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click on a drive,go to actions,all, >> select: "make active" Exit msc when thru. >> >> "Llibert" wrote: >> >> > 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.
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 7 Mar 2010 13:17
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:41:36 -0000, "Tim Meddick" <timmeddick(a)gawab.com> wrote: > 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, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |