My Docs on E drive, not C drive

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Petert

Hi, I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated
into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C drive, programmes
are loaded onto the d drive while i have my data stored on my E drive.

By default any documents I save are directed towards My Documents on
the C drive - can anyone please advice how I go about changing that so
the default is my Documents on the E drive?

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Cheers

Peter

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Rt click My Documents icon> move

PS A complete waste of time creating 3 partitions, since if the HD fails so
do all partitions, and whilst you can clean install to C you would still
need to reinstall all programs
 
No; that wont work

Terry Heinz said:
Good idea. I have Windows 7 on C:, Programmes on D: & Music on E:.

I skipped Vista, currently running Windows 7. Try creating a new folder on
E: of any name you like, then drag the contents of C:\My Documents to the
new folder on E: drive.

Windows Vista will probably ask lf or confirmation and then make the
change.

It should be simple but if it doesn't work out please
yell out.
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DL said:
Rt click My Documents icon> move

PS A complete waste of time creating 3 partitions, since if the HD fails
so do all partitions, and whilst you can clean install to C you would
still need to reinstall all programs
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Not a waste of time!
Very often the operating system may need to be re-installed on a clean
partition due to software failure, not always hardware failure.
 
who? said:
Not a waste of time!
Very often the operating system may need to be re-installed on a clean
partition due to software failure, not always hardware failure.
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Absolutely. But the idea of creating a partition for Programs IS a waste of
time. If the OS is re-installed than the programs will have to be
re-installed as well.
 
Rt click My Documents icon> move

PS A complete waste of time creating 3 partitions, since if the HD fails so
do all partitions, and whilst you can clean install to C you would still
need to reinstall all programs
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Not a waste of time at all. If data and nothing but data lives on a
partition it makes proper backups quite simple.
 
Rt click My Documents icon> move

PS A complete waste of time creating 3 partitions, since if the HD fails so
do all partitions, and whilst you can clean install to C you would still
need to reinstall all programs
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Why?
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Cheers

Peter

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Petert said:
Why?
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because installation of programs writes many entries to the Registry - when
you re-install the OS the registry is overwritten and so all the program
entries are missing. The only way to restore them is to re-install each
program.
That's why having a separate programs partition is a waste of time..
 
John McGaw said:
Not a waste of time at all. If data and nothing but data lives on a
partition it makes proper backups quite simple.
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Absolutely. The partition in question is not the OS or data but a PROGRAMS
partition. That indeed is a waste of time.
 
Petert said:
Hi, I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated
into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C drive, programmes
are loaded onto the d drive while i have my data stored on my E
drive.

By default any documents I save are directed towards My Documents on
the C drive - can anyone please advice how I go about changing that
so
the default is my Documents on the E drive?
Click to expand...

Since all of the replies so far have focused on your partition / drive
structure and not the actual question, I'll take a shot at helping you
:)

Click Start and click your user name at the top of the right column in
the Start menu. Right click on the icon for the Documents folder and
choose Properties. Use the "Move" button and browse to the folder on
your E drive. You'll be asked "Would you like to move all of the
files in your old location to the new location.?" Click Yes. (If you
click No, the original folder remains intact and you risk having
documents split between the two locations.)

Hope this helps!
 
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