Moving data to separate drive

[dmart]

My brand new laptop has its large single disk partitioned into C and D
with the operating system and user folders on C. I want some of the
user folders (eg. documents, pictures, music) to point to D and store
the data there. I've seen plenty of posts on ways to do this in VISTA
- including Ed Bott's - but all have failed on my system.

My attempts result in one or more problems:
- end up with two folders with the same name under user folders in C
- no connection to data in D
- worst of all, "Local Disk D" ends up as a user folder under C!

I even installed Tweak VI and used that - but it failed too.

I've seen a few other posts with the same problem, but no solution.
Any new ideas?

 

[Pavel]

When you select to move any one of the USER folders to another area, you
will be prompted to MOVE or not. The box will contain warning that if you
choose not to MOVE, you will end up with two entries.

 

[dmart]

Pavel

Yes, I understood that. But even if when avoided the double copy, I
ended up with "Local Disk D" inside my personal folder on C!

Thanks anyway

David M

 

[Guest]

You say it is a brand new computer. I have to assume Vista pre-installed as
you don't say which way it is installed.
You don't give the G size of the Partitions.

"D" could be the Vista Recovery Partition installed by the computer
manufacturer, in the event of an OS failure.

If that is the case, don't touch it.

 

[dmart]

This is a pretty standard install. Vista is on C, which is 69Gb. D is
same size and available for data. (There is a 10Gb hidden recovery
partition but that is quite separate from C and D.)

David M

 

[andy]

Use MKLINK to create directory junction points.

C:\Users\andy>dir
Volume in drive C is Vista x32
Volume Serial Number is B09E-7BCA

Directory of C:\Users\andy

11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> .
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> ..
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Contacts
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Desktop
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Documents
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Downloads
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Favorites
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Links
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Music
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Pictures
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Saved Games
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Searches
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Videos
0 File(s) 0 bytes
13 Dir(s) 24,099,205,120 bytes free

After moving Videos to G:

C:\Users\andy>dir
Volume in drive C is Vista x32
Volume Serial Number is B09E-7BCA

Directory of C:\Users\andy

11/18/2007 04:39 PM <DIR> .
11/18/2007 04:39 PM <DIR> ..
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Contacts
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Desktop
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Documents
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Downloads
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Favorites
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Links
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Music
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Pictures
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Saved Games
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Searches
0 File(s) 0 bytes
12 Dir(s) 23,779,938,304 bytes free

C:\Users\andy>dir g:
Volume in drive G is Data
Volume Serial Number is DA72-BF06

Directory of G:\

11/18/2007 04:38 PM <DIR> Videos
0 File(s) 0 bytes
1 Dir(s) 41,847,848,960 bytes free

C:\Users\andy>mklink /j Videos g:\Videos
Junction created for Videos <<===>> g:\Videos

C:\Users\andy>dir
Volume in drive C is Vista x32
Volume Serial Number is B09E-7BCA

Directory of C:\Users\andy

11/18/2007 04:44 PM <DIR> .
11/18/2007 04:44 PM <DIR> ..
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Contacts
11/18/2007 04:40 PM <DIR> Desktop
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Documents
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Downloads
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Favorites
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Links
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Music
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Pictures
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Saved Games
11/14/2007 12:46 AM <DIR> Searches
11/18/2007 04:44 PM <JUNCTION> Videos [g:\Videos]
0 File(s) 0 bytes
13 Dir(s) 23,779,102,720 bytes free

C:\Users\andy>