How do I tranfer My Documents to another Drive?

Question

I use Windows XP, and have two other drives as well as Drive C. For security I want My Docs. to be on one of the drives D or E, in order to protect against damage to Drive C, where I have all of my applications.

Any ideas how I set up My docs on Drive D, so that when I save in My docs on my Desktop it goes straight into Drive D, and how I transfer all of my data from My Docs in Drove to into the new destination My Docs on Drive D? Thanks.

Answer 1

Here this should help. :)

Change the Default Location of the My Documents Folder

To change the default location of the My Documents folder, follow these steps:

Click Start, and then point to My Documents.

Right-click My Documents, and then click Properties. Click the Target tab. In the Target box, do one of the following:

Type the path to the folder location that you want, and then click OK . For example, D:\My Stuff . If the folder does not exist, the Create Message dialog box is displayed. Click Yes to create the folder, and then click OK.

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Click Move , click the folder in which to store your documents, and then click OK twice. If you need to create a new folder, click Make New Folder. Type a name for the folder, and then click OK twice. In the Move Documents box, click Yes to move your documents to the new location, or click No to leave your documents in the original location.

Answer 2

Move your "My Documents" to another Drive

1. Right Click on My Documents and click Properties
2. Click Move
3. Select a Destination Drive and Browse to D drive
4. Click Make A New Folder say MY DOCS
5. Click Ok
6. Click Apply and Click Yes to Move all of the documents in your old location to the new location you have chosen.
7. Complete the task and check D:\MY DOCS

Answer 3

I think (about 90% certain, I may be wrong) that the default My Documents folder needs to be on the same drive where the Windows is installed. BUT you can copy its contents to a folder on another drive, then you can create a shortcut to that folrder on the desktop (easiest, I think, is right-click, select Send To > and select Desktop (shortcut); or drag & drop the folder to the desktop with the RIGHT mouse button, and when you release, you get a menu - Move here, copy here, Create Shortcut here). You won't get the shortcut on the left side of the "Save As..." or "Open..." dialog, but it is safer.

Answer 4

1st highlight all your documents that you want to be moved (do this quickly by pressing ctrl + a) Then right click on one of them so they are still highlighted, go to send to, and select drive 'D' and just wait so they can all transfer...

Then when u save something, instead on letting it save to my computer, you need to change the settings from where it says 'save in' to the drive 'D' instead of the default of saving it to the computer, hope this helps and good luck!!

Answer 5

in the event that they are cutting-component workstation's, the least confusing way is with a memory stick. you are able to only stick it interior the USB slot, fill it along with your data, and pass it to the different workstation. if your workstation has no usb slots, you are able to attempt burning the suitable data to a CD or DVD (presuming it has a report burner). greater complicated possibilities comprise networking the two workstation's (no longer trouble-free) or taking the trickypersistent out of one, and putting it in the different as a slavepersistent, then copying the data from one to the different. Presuming that is under 20 Gig or so, i could bypass with the memory stick. have exciting dumping that archives.

Answer 6

right click on my doc and cut it then open the drive you want and paste it.....the right click it in the new drive and create shortcut......and cut that shortcut and paste it on the desktop