HI all,

I want to relocate this Document & Settings folder from C drive to D drive
permanently.

Some Adware hijacked my computer and I had to reinstall windows XP.

Everytime I forgot to make copies of some of my documents on the C drive
before I format C Drive.

I know I will need to reinstall Windows XP in the future(Windows
sucks. My years of using Windows is a long story of keeping reinstalling
Windows...).

I don't want to make this mistake again. I want to relocate all
data/document/personal stuff to D drive, instead of the C drive. So in the
future, after I format C drive, my personal data/documents will be left
intact.

However I've noticed that folders such as "LocalSettings/Temp/*.*" tend to
have virus/adware/spyware etc. if things go wrong on the PC. So I want these
temporary parts(which are not my personal
data/bookmarks/documents/emails/news, etc.) stay on C drive and get
formatted, but those personal data/documents go to D drive.

How can I do it efficiently and safely?

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Pegasus (MVP) wrote:

Are these what they call 1:1 copy, image copy software?

There is lot of stuff on the internet about true 1:1 copy
software, very confusing, I guess all it does is copy what
ever is on the HDD say C drive, including any bugs, and
makes an image like an ISO which you can put back on to
the C drive HDD if need be?

Are these things simple to use, or tricky?

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

I agree. The OP is trying to cure a symptom not the problem.

cfman -

Redirecting My Documents is only part of the solution. You also have to
redirect the email store and any programs that have custom folders for
storing data. To fix the real problem you have to either change your habits,
harden your computer, or better yet both. The problem is that you keep
getting malware. Solve this first.

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
www.VistaHelp.ca

Steve wrote:

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On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:38:46 -0700, "cfman" gmail.com>

Long post, so this is 1 of 2 in a series!

Generally, you can't do that.

That's a pretty DIRE reflection on XP maintainability, isn't it?

Quite. But Windows doesn't such that badly (though it will if you
keep re-installing it); you'd do better to learn how to maintain the
same installation than "just" re-installing all the time. See...

http://cquirke.mvps.org/reinst.htm

I do agree that XP gives you nothing to help you reclaim your PC from
malware; in spite of obvious real-world mileage, the approach is still
"we will make the OS so secure you'll never be infected". Useless.

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:38:46 -0700, "cfman" gmail.com>

Long post, so part 2 of 2

Yep - you already know why moving all of D&S isn't the ticket :-)

OK, this will go through the whole thing from before you install
Windows in the first place...

1) Decide what partitioning you want

You don't need two physical hard drives to separate the core software
installation from data and other content. You can partition a single
hard drive so that it appears to be multiple drives. Typically, you'd
create a porimary C: for the installation and an extended partition
containing logical drives for everything else.

I'l use the word "volume" from now on, to refer to partitions or
logical drives that can be accessed by a drive letter. Each volume
can use one of three file systems: