How to change folder type?

Question

I bought a portable hard drive and it worked great with my XP laptop. Then, I plugged it into my other laptop, which uses Vista. One of the folders on the hard drive is named "My Documents" - it was fine with XP but then Vista changed the "My Documents" folder (on the external hard drive) to a "shortcut" file type and now clicking on that folder only opens "My Documents" on the computer it is plugged into.

I have tried changing the "target" and "location" under the folder's properties, but it only tells me this is not allowed.

Any suggestions for changing the folder type so it's no longer a shortcut folder type?

Or... any suggestions for accessing all the files on the portable hard drive other than clicking on this particular folder?

Thanks!

Answer 1

When you plug in the external drive, it should add itself into your "My Computer" listing as a new drive.

Without the drive plugged in, open My Computer.
Plug in the drive, and a new listing or icon should appear
Click the new listing to get access to the external drive
Note the letter of the drive so that you can recognize it in the future
You can also rightclick on the listing/icon for the drive and select "Create Shortcut" and it should offer to create an icon to that drive on your desktop.

Answer 2

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