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Q about moving personal data files to 2nd hdd partition

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  • Started 1 month ago by lilsting10
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lilsting10
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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....-easy-way/ (for other people's comments)

My hardrive is split into C: and D: (and in disk management there's an unnamed EISA Configuration partition, but I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole since I suspect it's the factory reset files).

If I were to move my "C:\Users\Karl" files to just "D:\", would I have the same problems as people above where C:\Users\Karl folders would reappear after a certain period of time? Is this the same problem as people have been having, or have they only been moving them to external hardrives or network locations?

I think that this would be good perhaps, since I currently have C:\SYSTEM, D:\FILES, E:\ DVD ROM and (External Hardrive) F:\MEDIA; so it'd save me some time to have files auto-save on the D:\ drive, especially with how long it takes Vista to copy files accross, and all the problems it usually runs into. (Copy without it's privillages? You need Admistrator permission! I'm just not going to let you copy files here no matter how hard you try, because I say they're in use even though they're clearly not, you're going to have to reboot the laptop to sort out some weird memory glitch I've got going on MUHAHAHAH!) I just don't want to end up loosing any files.

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abhs94
abhs94
Posts: 86

why don'e you cut paste the files

Posted 1 month ago #
 
Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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Well. I have my personal folders in the root directory of D: And have not had any problems with them (eg D:\Downloads, D:\Music etc)

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abhs94
abhs94
Posts: 86

A problem might come up if there's a virus and you need to format that drive. That experience has never let me put any files in the documents. I lost about 1GB data but there was no option because even they could have been infected

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lilsting10
Posts: 32

Copy and pasting files accross is what I do at the moment, but I can never just leave Vista to copy because of all the stupid problems it creates for itself.

Usually when I do a factory reset, C: is wiped and D: is left how it was before the reset. I suppose that means I could move the personal files in C:Users:Karl over to D: without fear of loosing anything. I was more looking for information about windows automatically creating the C:Users:Karl files again after a certain period of time and problems with duplicates.

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