Mount a 2nd hard drive over My Documents?

[Guest]

Is My Documents a special folder that cannot be used as a mount point for a
partition or second hard drive?

I would like to add a second hard drive to an old single user computer that
is running Windows XP Pro and has a small, almost full, hard drive. I would
like to install the second hard disk normally (let the OS assign it the next
available drive letter), and then move all of “C:\Documents and Settings\John
Smith\My Documents†over to the new drive. I would then like to use the Disk
Management snap-in to re-mount the new drive over the now "empty" My
Documents folder. In this way, I am hoping that all the short cuts to My
Documents will now be re-directed to the second hard disk. I don’t have any
spare machines to try this on before I take the computer away from the end
user to do this, so I do not know if this is possible to do.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Install the second hard drive, and the drive-letter be assigned. Then, redirect the My Documents folder pointer in the registry to the second hard drive (2nd hard drive's driveletter:\My Documents)

Change the Default Location of the My Documents Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310147

TweakUI can also redirect the Shell folder paths (other items except shared folders):
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

More information on Shell Folders paths:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/folderredirector.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


Is My Documents a special folder that cannot be used as a mount point for a
partition or second hard drive?

I would like to add a second hard drive to an old single user computer that
is running Windows XP Pro and has a small, almost full, hard drive. I would
like to install the second hard disk normally (let the OS assign it the next
available drive letter), and then move all of “C:\Documents and Settings\John
Smith\My Documents†over to the new drive. I would then like to use the Disk
Management snap-in to re-mount the new drive over the now "empty" My
Documents folder. In this way, I am hoping that all the short cuts to My
Documents will now be re-directed to the second hard disk. I don’t have any
spare machines to try this on before I take the computer away from the end
user to do this, so I do not know if this is possible to do.