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real hard drive brain teaser here, please help...

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YibbleY

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I recently bought a 120 gig hard drive to acompany my 40 gig. I had already planned a reinstallation and did so. I partitioned my 40 gig into 35 and 5 gig. I installed windows onto my 5 gig (E Drive) and the 35 gig became my D drive and my 120 gig became my C drive. The problem is that all my user setting and "my documents" stuff is on the 5 gig. Secondly, the default "save to" drive is my windows drive (E). I can't figure out how to change the default save to file and also how to move my My Documents folder to a bigger drive. Basically, I don't want my windows drive being my 'local' drive but rather have my C drive as the local drive. I am running Windows XP professional. Anyone who has any ideas, answers and/or sugestions gets my respect. Thanks in advance.
 
any particular reason you installed windows on such a small partition? bearing in mind that program files will be stored there as well (unless someone here knows of another way?)
 
I did the same thing, and installed XP on D: drive ( in a 20 gig partition tho ) Not sure how to change the settings like that. Maybe e-mail Microsoft as a last resort.
 
I'm not sure I understand why you did that. Was it a mistake or is there something you are trying to do that I don't understand.

You should always put your OS on drive C unless you are doing a dual boot. If you just did this and haven't saved much yet, I would redo it. Put your 40G on the master and your 120 on the slave controller. Then load windows on the C partition.

Short of that, the answer to arranging drives in XP is in the FAQ's.
 
Under 2000/XP the drive letters should never change when you install a new drive and are already using dynamic disks. For basic disks, if the boot partition (\winnt) is not also on the C: drive/partition, it will may occur. Just like if the primary IDE channel was vacant and a drive is connected as primary master, or replaced, then there may be some switching, however, 2000/XP still are able to determine the system partition (usually c:\) and will attempt to boot NT regardless to what channel you move the drive.

Drive letters should also be retained no matter where you move the drive if using dynamic disks (not basic disk). One disadvantage of dynamic disks: You can't reformat and reinstall without overwriting the whole dynamic disk partition (including MFT) - everything.

Either reconnect them the way they were and convert each drive to dynamic disks and then reinstall the new drive or import your old user settings with the XP utility to do so.
 
Try right clicking My Documents, on the desktop, and changing the drive in the target box to one with more room.
 
Try right clicking My Documents, on the desktop, and changing the drive in the target box to one with more room.


i second that solution 🙂

Secondly, the default "save to" drive is my windows drive (E).

mm for this.. if you are talking about "save to" in MS office.. you can always go to options and change the file location as well.. which office you running??
 
Yibbley meant that he wants to change the "Install to" Directory to the E drive. So that when he installs a new program, it will automatically go to E:\Program Files.....

And don't ask me why he wanted Windows on a drive other than C: ---- That's what he wanted, so I did it for him.
 
TweakUI will let you change all of the 'special folders' locations.

But currently MS does not "officially" have TweakUI for XP
 
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