My Documents on separate drive - XP reinstall
 

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Anyone know much about what happens to files in 'My Documents' when you reinstall XP? :confused:

At the moment I've got the 'My Documents' folder on XP Pro on the root of my D: drive (using the right click on My Documents, Properties, Target = D:\ method).

The contents won't fit on the C: drive.

I want to completely reinstall XP but am worried about losing my data.

What I'm thinking of is this:

1. Create a folder on D: called 'Temporary My Docs'
2. Change the My Documents target to point to that folder.
3. Create another folder on D: called 'Safe Store'
4. Copy the entire contents of 'Temporary My Docs' into 'Safe Store'
5. Reinstall XP

I'm assuming that when I reinstall XP the contents of 'Safe Store' won't be connected to my XP account as it's not a special folder, so will be safe. And also that steps 2 and 4 won't take any time as the source and destination drives are both the same.

And of course I'll back up to removable storage first, but that'll take ages.

Am I on the right lines here?

Or am I being a :dunce: ??

Thanks :)

Re: My Documents on separate drive - XP reinstall
 

If D is a seperate drive & XP is Installed on C then i dont think it will affect it. The same goes for partitions, if the documents etc are on a different partition to XP then again i dont think it will affect it. :(

Re: My Documents on separate drive - XP reinstall
 

When you reinstall, just right click on the 'my documents' Icon and change the drive letter from C to D in the target window and you will still have all the contents from before.

Re: My Documents on separate drive - XP reinstall
 

Thanks :)

Re: My Documents on separate drive - XP reinstall
 

I would still have a backup of the documents, just in case something goes wrong. I don't entirely trust Windows :D

Re: My Documents on separate drive - XP reinstall
 

Start-My documents folder-right click-properties-select move. Simple.
I did this a few days ago and had no problems.

Hope this helps

Re: My Documents on separate drive - XP reinstall
 

Just doing it now ;)