Mounted Partitions - Not quite as they were in XP...

[Zxian]

I'm trying to mount my "My Documents" partition into the "Documents" location in Vista, so that if it comes time to format or something, then all my files are safe on a separate partition.

I went into Disk Management and pointed the partition at C:\Users\Zxian\Documents, but now the links in the "Favorite Links" don't work, and when I try to make a shortcut to it on my desktop, it doesn't work.

Any ideas?

[bonestonne]

i'm slightly clueless as to what to tell you, i use a slave hard drive to back things up, its the same idea as a seperate partition, so it might be a format problem....the actual format of the partition may not be working with it.

[Zxian]

Well... both partitions are NTFS - one was formatted with XP before, and the system drive was formatted with Vista. I don't think that the partition type would cause it... I can browse the location fine when I go to the path specified, but shortcuts to it don't work.

[bonestonne]

as long as it matches its fine, but if its a shortcut, then thats why. you need to have the actual file there.

[Zxian]

Well... it shows up as a shortcut when I look at C:\Users\Zxian\, but I mounted the drive with Disk Management. It seems like Vista is making a "soft link", rather than a "hard link" (if you get what I mean).

[fizban2]

from the my documents link on your start menu, right click and go to properties, in properties choose the location tab, hit the move button and navigate to the folder you made for your documents, it will tranfer all links for the my documents to that location

[Zxian]

Cool. Thanks for that.

[fizban2]

no problem, you can do the same for any folders in the users profile (documents, pictures, music)