Lost Data Drive - and all of "My" folders

[ktvanhorne]

Hey all,

My OS hard drive (C: ) just died so I bought a new one and reinstalled Vista Ultimate x64. It was mostly up and running (not all updates downloaded yet) so I reconnected my data drive (B: ) and moved all of my user folders (My Documents, My desktop, etc.) over to that drive by going through FOLDER/PROPERTIES/MOVE. Soon, I had them all reassigned and working.

Then my B: drive fried and died. Not a very good week for me. Anyway, now all of those folders are pointing to a location that no longer exists. I get the error "B:/xxx/My Documents points to a location that is unavailable..."

Now when I go into my user folder, there are no folders. I cannot reassign the drives because they are not there. Can anyone help me recreate these user folders?

Thanks in advance.

KT

 

[mansrm81]

Follow this tutorial http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/148461-personal-user-folder-restore-missing-folder.html?filter

 

[ktvanhorne]

Here's a funny twist. I partitioned another drive and gave it the letter B: of the now defunct drive. I created several new folders in it, and Vista randomly started assigning user folders to them. Example: new folder (3) got assigned the Documents folder - although neither the name nor the icon changed. However, when I took one of the new folders and renamed it to documents, it suddenly became CONTACTS and got the appropriate icon. Music became LINKS, and downloads became SAVED GAMES. Strange. I got them all reassigned - but I am working to get them meaningful names - rather than new folder (4) on my start menu.

I am still working - but thank you for the shell command. It got things going in the right direction.

KT