How To Shift Mydocuments ???????????????

[EagerBeaver]

I have just required to format my PC. Due to this I have lost all my documents. I just wanted to ask you, whether I can change the location of this mydocuments to another dirive, so that if I have to reformat again, I will not loose my data. Please help me.
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[paul_007]

instead of keeping ur data in my documents y dont u put them in separate folder in different drive

[Pathik]

ya u can copy all the data 4m my documents to another drive b4 formatting...

[Vishal Gupta]

Right-click on My Documents icon and select Properties and in TARGET box type ur desired location. :)

[EagerBeaver]

Arrey boss, what happens when your PC suddenly refuses to boot one fine day ????????????? that is wht I wanted to shift the mydocument position.

and I have tried my documents properties etc, but somehow it is not working ?????????????????

[Pathik]

wat error comes wen u do wat vishal said... it shd work...

[Third Eye]

Just copy the data of My Documents and paste in your separate folder.

[it_waaznt_me]

Did you try what Vishal wrote ..? It should work .. You can have a look at this kb article (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310147) too ..

[sakumar79]

Or, get TweakUI for Windows, go to My Computer in the left side menu and choose Special Folders. Here, you can set My Documents to a different location...

Arun

[EagerBeaver]

After I reboot, the setting comes back to the default drive location. Maybe I am not doint it correctly. But I will copy the contenst of My Documents to another drive as BackUp. Thankz for the idea. I will also try this Tweak UI.