Personal Folders (Downloads/Favourites etc) Lost

[Guest]

OK, I've installed Vista for the first time and discovered the cool feature
that Vista Personal Folder (contacts, favourites, documents etc) can be moved
ie. your "downloads" folder can be pointed to a directory on another drive if
you want to store the goodies there. Great, so I redirect Download,
Favourites and a few others to my second HDD.

The Problem:
When I made the change the second HDD was F: and my DVD drive was E:
I've since changed the drive letter allocations so the second HDD is E: and
the DVD drive is F:
Vista didn't like this, as my personal folders were all pointing to and
address on a DVD drive... as a result they have all dissapeared. Now in the
personal folder I don't even have a directory called 'downloads' or
'favourites'. Also, you can't just create a new dir as it will not have the
ability to be redirected like the original personal folders.
Another byproduct of this is I have no favourites on IE7. By that, I mean I
can't access, save or manage favourites because the location doesn't exist.
When I click 'add to favourites' or 'organise favourites' nothing happens.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Mullin

 

[dean-dean]

Try changing the drive letters back to the way they were originally, then go
the special user folders on F: and right-click each one, choosing
Properties. On the Location tab, click on Restore Default. This should put
the location of the folders under C:\Users\(Your Name). Then change the
drive letters as you want them, and then move the special folders back to
where you want them...