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Clive
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      01-09-2008
Hi,

I'm helping someone setup a new Vista laptop. It's a Toshiba and
it's 120GB hard drive is partitioned into C: and E: from system /
programs and data. I like this arrangment as it makes it a lot easier
to backup the data - just backup everything on E.

I don't know if the following is the best way to do this and I'm
open to suggestions. All I want to do is make the choice of location
to store data easy for her and backup as easy as dragging a drive icon
to the destination backup device.

Now my approach is to create folders for her data under her account
"Sue". Now by default, Vista has created folder "Contacts" "Downloads"
"documents" etc. on C:\user\Sue. The properties of these folders have
a tab "location" that allows the folders and the "pointers" to them to
be moved to the new folder I have created - E:\Sue-data.

However, if I create a new folder in E:\Sue-data, this new folder
isn't visible when she clicks "Sue" from the Start menu. If I create
the new folder in C:\users\Sue then the folder becomes visible from
the Start > Sue folder (if you see what I mean). However, I don't want
the data on the C: drive - for the backup reasons. The new folder I
have created doesn't have the "location" tab under properties so I
can't "shift" it but still be visible under "Sue".

Also I would like her Outlook contacts folder and mail folders to be
hosted on E:. Do I configure that in Outlook rather than Vista? Again
the idea is if she backs up E:, then she has backed up all her data.


Thanks

Clive
 
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