Using Dual Local Drives

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There are 2 of us that share a computer. We want to set up an external hard
drive so that each of us has our own info on seperate drives (documents,
outlook, etc) Once the computer is booted up, how do we switch to and use
just the external drive for that user?
 
You want to be careful about setting up system files like your mail store, or
your documents, in a hardware configuration like that. If you ever forget to
plug in the appropriate drive before startup, you might find your system has
changed your settings to a new, blank store. The My Documents folders CAN be
dragged. Outlook, or Outlook Express can both be setup to use any drive. I
think you should just set it up in a less dangerous way.
Certainly, you should do what you think is best, but plugging and unplugging
drives has a host of problems documented on this board quite clearly for
anyone who would can to read about it.
One alternative is to use your external drives as storage for a saved set
created by the "Fast Wizard"

Save settings and data with the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (FAST
wizard): Go To: http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
 
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