My Docs on E drive, not C drive

Hi, I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated
into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C drive, programmes
are loaded onto the d drive while i have my data stored on my E drive.

By default any documents I save are directed towards My Documents on
the C drive - can anyone please advice how I go about changing that so
the default is my Documents on the E drive?

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Cheers

Peter

(Reply to address is a spam trap - pse reply to the group)

Rt click My Documents icon> move

PS A complete waste of time creating 3 partitions, since if the HD fails so
do all partitions, and whilst you can clean install to C you would still
need to reinstall all programs

"Petert" <> wrote in message
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> Hi, I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated
> into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C drive, programmes
> are loaded onto the d drive while i have my data stored on my E drive.
>
> By default any documents I save are directed towards My Documents on
> the C drive - can anyone please advice how I go about changing that so
> the default is my Documents on the E drive?
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>
> (Reply to address is a spam trap - pse reply to the group)

No; that wont work

"Terry Heinz" <no-> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:40:29 +0000, Petert wrote:
>
>>Hi, I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated
>>into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C drive, programmes
>>are loaded onto the d drive while i have my data stored on my E drive.
>
> Good idea. I have Windows 7 on C:, Programmes on D: & Music on E:.
>>
>>By default any documents I save are directed towards My Documents on
>>the C drive - can anyone please advice how I go about changing that so
>>the default is my Documents on the E drive?
>
> I skipped Vista, currently running Windows 7. Try creating a new folder on
> E: of any name you like, then drag the contents of C:\My Documents to the
> new folder on E: drive.
>
> Windows Vista will probably ask lf or confirmation and then make the
> change.
>
> It should be simple but if it doesn't work out please
> yell out.
> --
>
> Terry Heinz.
>

As stated; a waste of time/effort for reasons given

"Terry Heinz" <no-> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:09:01 -0000, DL wrote:
>
>>"Petert" <> wrote in message
>>news:. ..
>>> Hi, I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated
>>> into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C drive, programmes
>>> are loaded onto the d drive while i have my data stored on my E drive.
>>>
>>> By default any documents I save are directed towards My Documents on
>>> the C drive - can anyone please advice how I go about changing that so
>>> the default is my Documents on the E drive?
>>
>>PS A complete waste of time creating 3 partitions, since if the HD fails
>>so
>>do all partitions, and whilst you can clean install to C you would still
>>need to reinstall all programs
>
> Am I doing somethng wroi
>

"DL" <> wrote in message
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> Rt click My Documents icon> move
>
> PS A complete waste of time creating 3 partitions, since if the HD fails
> so do all partitions, and whilst you can clean install to C you would
> still need to reinstall all programs
>

Not a waste of time!
Very often the operating system may need to be re-installed on a clean
partition due to software failure, not always hardware failure.

"who?" <> wrote in message
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> Not a waste of time!
> Very often the operating system may need to be re-installed on a clean
> partition due to software failure, not always hardware failure.

Absolutely. But the idea of creating a partition for Programs IS a waste of
time. If the OS is re-installed than the programs will have to be
re-installed as well.

On 1/2/2010 5:09 AM, DL wrote:
> Rt click My Documents icon> move
>
> PS A complete waste of time creating 3 partitions, since if the HD fails so
> do all partitions, and whilst you can clean install to C you would still
> need to reinstall all programs
>
> "Petert"<> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Hi, I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated
>> into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C drive, programmes
>> are loaded onto the d drive while i have my data stored on my E drive.
>>
>> By default any documents I save are directed towards My Documents on
>> the C drive - can anyone please advice how I go about changing that so
>> the default is my Documents on the E drive?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> (Reply to address is a spam trap - pse reply to the group)
>
>

Not a waste of time at all. If data and nothing but data lives on a
partition it makes proper backups quite simple.

On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:09:01 -0000, "DL" <>
wrote:

>Rt click My Documents icon> move
>
>PS A complete waste of time creating 3 partitions, since if the HD fails so
>do all partitions, and whilst you can clean install to C you would still
>need to reinstall all programs

Why?
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Cheers

Peter

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"Petert" <> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 2 Jan 2010 10:09:01 -0000, "DL" <>
> wrote:
>
>>Rt click My Documents icon> move
>>
>>PS A complete waste of time creating 3 partitions, since if the HD fails
>>so
>>do all partitions, and whilst you can clean install to C you would still
>>need to reinstall all programs
>
> Why?

because installation of programs writes many entries to the Registry - when
you re-install the OS the registry is overwritten and so all the program
entries are missing. The only way to restore them is to re-install each
program.
That's why having a separate programs partition is a waste of time..

"John McGaw" <> wrote in message
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>
> Not a waste of time at all. If data and nothing but data lives on a
> partition it makes proper backups quite simple.

Absolutely. The partition in question is not the OS or data but a PROGRAMS
partition. That indeed is a waste of time.