AskMeCha: Problem with using E: for the first time. No, not that kind of E. So I got my new external hard drive delivered today and have been trying to transfer my files from my old desktop, Old Faithful, to the new laptop, and have run into a problem.

→[More:]I copied all of my personal files (word files and pictures and one Excel spreadsheet) on my old computer to the hard drive, folder by folder. It seemed to work fine and random checks on the files showed they were in the E: drive and opened as they should.

I then plugged the external hard drive into my new laptop and then looked at the directory to find only two out of about ten folders were showing up. I moved the plug back to Old Faithful and again the files looked fine in the E: drive. But I did notice that the folders that did show up, as well as the system folders, were in a highlighted yellow while the folders that didn't show up were not. What does this mean? How can I fix this?