New hard drive

[Stumpy]

Our old Win XP box has a 40 GB drive that is <3% free. Removed as many
files as I could, then gave up. Bought a 160 Gb Maxtor IDE ATA for $70 at
Fry's and installed it. Partitioned and formatted it, then tried to move
the whole "shared documents" folder from the C: drive to the new F: drive.

It won't go. Just makes a shortcut on the new drive. This folder has 16 Gb
of Mp3s and alot of photos. Seems like a logical choice to move all of the
shared files onto the drive and then make it the default drive for music and
pictures.

What am I doing wrong? Got any suggestions to take the load off of the
packed C: drive?

 

[pfermar]

use your new hard as a slave, and then clone your 40 gb hard drive onto the
160 gb, your new hard drive come with a cd utilities, check the cd if not use
true imagen acronis, or symantec ghost

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Our old Win XP box has a 40 GB drive that is <3% free. Removed as many
files as I could, then gave up. Bought a 160 Gb Maxtor IDE ATA for $70 at
Fry's and installed it. Partitioned and formatted it, then tried to move
the whole "shared documents" folder from the C: drive to the new F: drive.

It won't go. Just makes a shortcut on the new drive. This folder has 16
Gb of Mp3s and alot of photos. Seems like a logical choice to move all of
the shared files onto the drive and then make it the default drive for
music and pictures.

What am I doing wrong? Got any suggestions to take the load off of the
packed C: drive?

How exactly did you try to move the Shared Documents?

 

[JS]

New drives like Maxtor and Western Digital (that are not OEM versions) come
with a CD that includes a drive copy utility.

If you have an OEM version go to the Manufacturer's web site.

Also have used XXCOPY in the past: http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm

JS

 

[Stumpy]

How exactly did you try to move the Shared Documents?

Drag and drop in Windows Explorer. Doesn't work!

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Drag and drop in Windows Explorer. Doesn't work!

Right-click "Shared Documents", left-click "Properties", then
specify the new location. (I'm actually guessing here because
my current machine does not use this facility).

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 3/1/2008 11:13 AM, and on a whim, Stumpy pounded
out on the keyboard:

Our old Win XP box has a 40 GB drive that is <3% free. Removed as many
files as I could, then gave up. Bought a 160 Gb Maxtor IDE ATA for $70 at
Fry's and installed it. Partitioned and formatted it, then tried to move
the whole "shared documents" folder from the C: drive to the new F: drive.

It won't go. Just makes a shortcut on the new drive. This folder has 16 Gb
of Mp3s and alot of photos. Seems like a logical choice to move all of the
shared files onto the drive and then make it the default drive for music and
pictures.

What am I doing wrong? Got any suggestions to take the load off of the
packed C: drive?

I just verified the same within My Computer. Even when right-clicked
and dragged to a drive, the only option is "Create Shortcuts Here".

Are most of the Shared folders within My Documents? If so, create a
folder name of your choice on the new drive, then right click on the My
Documents folder on the Desktop and select Properties. Then change the
Target path to the new drive folder location.

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[Stumpy]

use your new hard as a slave, and then clone your 40 gb hard drive onto
the
160 gb, your new hard drive come with a cd utilities, check the cd if not
use
true imagen acronis, or symantec ghost

I'm afraid that the WGA or whatever the MS program that confirms my "rights"
to use the XP program might see the old computer as a new one. Maybe stop
updates or similar.

The new HD did come with a cloning utility.

 

[pfermar]

does not true, it happens only if you change your mother board, but not when
you change your hard drive. if you change your mother board is like having a
new computer and you have to buy a new license

 

[Jim]

Drag and drop in Windows Explorer. Doesn't work!

Did your method not copy the files from one disk to another?
Your method will not change the shortcut. Thus, when you double click the
shortcut, you will get to the previous location.
If the files copied over, and I cannot see why not, then you need to change
the shortcut as well.
Jim

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

You don't have to buy a new license unless it is a bios-locked OEM copy of
Windows. You just have to reactivate.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

You might have to reactivate, but I doubt it. Even if you do it is no big
deal. Either you reactivate over the net or over the phone. Unless your
Windows is not genuine there should be no problem doing one or the other.

 

[Stumpy]

I just verified the same within My Computer. Even when right-clicked and
dragged to a drive, the only option is "Create Shortcuts Here".

Are most of the Shared folders within My Documents? If so, create a folder
name of your choice on the new drive, then right click on the My Documents
folder on the Desktop and select Properties. Then change the Target path
to the new drive folder location.

Not really. The shared folder is in "documents and settings". If I
right-click the doc+set folder it gives me the info, but I cannot select a
new path.

 

[pfermar]

I'm agreed with you, but the point here is because Stumpy he is affraid of
just because he is going to clone is 40GB hard drive with 160GB, microsoft is
going to say the he had a new computer, that is no true, I clone HD all the
time and I not even had to reactivate windows

 

[Stumpy]

I'm agreed with you, but the point here is because Stumpy he is affraid of
just because he is going to clone is 40GB hard drive with 160GB, microsoft
is
going to say the he had a new computer, that is no true, I clone HD all
the
time and I not even had to reactivate windows

Thanks for the info. Since I just want to add a new drive for storage, and
not replace the old one, I wasn't really planning on cloning the operating
system. I'm amazed I'm having a problem just scooting a folder over to a
new drive.

Cloning is what I'll do if the easier stuff fails.

 

[Matty]

Not really. The shared folder is in "documents and settings". If I
right-click the doc+set folder it gives me the info, but I cannot select a
new path.

You can't copy the Shared Documents folder but you can copy/move the
contents of that folder.

You can't change the location of the Shared Documents folder as
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents" seems to be its default
location (someone correct me if this wrong!). It seems to be tied to the
root drive.

So, you'll probably have to make your new drive your root drive so that a
Shared Documents folder is created within it. Then you can move the copy of
the Shared Documents folder that you made earlier.

 

[Matty]

You can't copy the Shared Documents folder but you can copy/move the
contents of that folder.

You can't change the location of the Shared Documents folder as
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents" seems to be its default
location (someone correct me if this wrong!). It seems to be tied to the
root drive.

So, you'll probably have to make your new drive your root drive so that a
Shared Documents folder is created within it. Then you can move the copy
of the Shared Documents folder that you made earlier.

Take a look at this - http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-519724.php

Thread is talking about what you want to do - move your Shared Documents
folder to another location.

 

[Stumpy]

You can't copy the Shared Documents folder but you can copy/move the
contents of that folder.

You can't change the location of the Shared Documents folder as
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents" seems to be its default
location (someone correct me if this wrong!). It seems to be tied to the
root drive.

So, you'll probably have to make your new drive your root drive so that a
Shared Documents folder is created within it. Then you can move the copy
of the Shared Documents folder that you made earlier.

I'm making progress. Used Tweak UI to select a new "special folder" on the
F: drive. Called it Shared Documents just like the one on C:

It is currently moving ~20 GB over using drag + drop in Win Exp.

Using Tweak UI seemed to make the difference.

 

[Stumpy]

Take a look at this - http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-519724.php

Thread is talking about what you want to do - move your Shared Documents
folder to another location.

Too scary!

I now have a copy of shared documents on F: If I train Kodak Easyshare,
LimeWire, WMP, and some others to use F: as the default Then I'm good.
Won't delete the original on C: until I'm sure.

I'll confirm this tomorrow.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

System folders work a little differently from ordinary folders. They are
hard coded. Since some third party apps are also hard coded to direct their
output to one of the System folders, you have to change the system variables
so that output is redirected. Otherwise some programs would fail if you
just moved the folder.