Partiton Magic & WinMedia Player

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BlissCat

I recently repartitioned my 60GB HD leaving the original root drive C:\ and
creating a new partition as drive F:\ .
My first task was to leave Windows Media Player on the C:\ drive and putting
my music folder (My Downloads) on the new partition F:\ . To my surprise,
when I opened the Player and looked at the media library, each song file
still showed to be located on the C:\ drive.
Please tell me I don't have to go into each song file and manually edit each
one to reflect the new location !!
Also, can I get away with moving the Documents and Settings folder to the
new partition ?

System:
HP Pavillion 533W 2GHZ Celeron 256MB
WIN XPHome SP1
WinMediaPlayer 9.0

Any help much appreciated,

BlissCat
 
I think WMP gets the files by using their path (ie C:\My
Music\song.mp3), when you changed the folder from C to the F drive you
altered that path for all those files and WMP won't be able to see
them.

You can nuke your Media Library according to these instructions from
Zach's site:

http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html#medialibrary

What I would do is go to Media Library > All music, then select all
songs in the right pane, right click and delete them from the library.

Then I would use WMP's built in function Tools > Search for media
files. It will look up all media files in F and recreate your library.

Using TweakUI for Windows XP you can change the location of certain
system folders, like My Documents, etc. You have to be careful doing
this, though.
 
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