Got it! This article details what you want to do, if you want to do the same
thing I describe in my posts here:
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/win...er-in-vista-2/
Here's what I did/recommend:
1) If you don't already have your hard drive formatted into two separate
partitions, do so. Format the C: drive so that it is at least 40GB. That's
the drive that will contain your Vista OS, Application Data, etc. Format the
remainder of your hard disk into a drive for your data files, drive D: (it
might end up being drive E, if there's a recovery partition in there
already). Search around elsewhere on this forum for how to do that.
2) Open up your user account folder by clicking Start >> (Your User Account
folder name here)
3) Open up your data partition that you just created (I'm going to assume
that it's drive D
, by clicking Start >> Computer >> D:
4) Drive D: should be a completely empty folder. Right-click and select
New >> Folder. Look at the folders in your User Account folder, and create
new folders (on D
with the exact same names as all the folders in your User
Account folder.
4a) Assuming you're doing this on a fresh-out-of-the-box Vista machine, to
which you haven't installed any applications yet, the folders you will see in
your user account folder will be:
C:\Users\(your User Account folder's name)\Contacts
C:\Users\(your User Account folder's name)\Desktop
C:\Users\(your User Account folder's name)\Documents
C:\Users\(your User Account folder's name)\Downloads
C:\Users\(your User Account folder's name)\Favorites
C:\Users\(your User Account folder's name)\Links
C:\Users\(your User Account folder's name)\Saved Games
C:\Users\(your User Account folder's name)\Searches
C:\Users\(your User Account folder's name)\Videos
And the folders you will be creating on D: will be:
D:\Contacts
D:\Desktop
D:\Documents
D:\Downloads
D:\Favorites
D:\Links
D:\Saved Games
D:\Searches
D:\Videos
5) In your USER ACCOUNT FOLDER, right-click on each of the folders listed
above, and click Properties.
6) Click on the "location" tab, and click "move"
7) Browse to the D: drive and click on the folder (created by you in step
4) with the same name as the folder you are moving. Click "select folder."
8) Windows will prompt you to ask if all files should be moved from the old
folder to the new one. Click "Yes."
**I recommend moving the Desktop folder before moving the "Saved Games"
folder. There was a file related to the desktop in the "Saved Games" folder
that did not want to be moved before the Desktop folder was moved.
***Also, there was another folder in the User Account folder on my new
laptop, "Bluetooth Software." My hunch is that this only comes with laptops
that are Bluetooth-enabled, as mine is. I opted NOT to move this folder onto
my D: drive, as I'm leaving the OS and all applications on drive C: