Mount a partition in place of My Documents

[Kevin Goodman]

I've got a disk partition that I would like to mount into the My Documents
directory so that I can expand it's size. This makes it so none of the
programs that look for files within My Documents will notice that upgrade.
(ie. tried moving the logical My Documents location to a different path but
this breaks programs that knew the absolute path where it was located
before.)

I have transfered C:\Documents and Settings\Me\My Documents into it and the
My Documents folder is empty but when I try the mount, Disk Management tells
me "The operation did not complete because access is denied. Check your
access permissions."

I'm running as Administrator so I should have permissions.

Any thoughts? Is the "My Documents" folder that I'm trying to mount into
special in some way?

 

[Dennis Davis [msft]]

Kevin,

I'm not positive but Disk Management probably won't allow this since My
Documents is a system folder. Have you tried redirecting My Documents to a
different path temporarily and then mounting a new partition to
'C:\Documents and Settings\Me\My Documents'? After mounting the drive you
could try redirecting back to this location or you could try redirecting
with TweakUI.

I hope this helps,
Dennis Davis [msft]