Sunday, February 19, 2012

How to change my main hard drive?

I'm not really sure how to phrase the question. Basically, I have two HDs: a 75 gig SSD and a 1TB regular. The SSD is for Win7, WoW, and SC2. The 1TB is for everything else.





Now my problem is this: even though I install some games to the 1TB, they still write some things to the SSD. In particular, if I want to add some mods to a few games (say, Neverwinter Nights 2 or Dragon Age: Origins), I have to put the mods in the a subfolder in the My Documents on the SSD.





How is it I can tell the games to look for the mods, saved games, or whatever, in a My Documents folder on the 1tb?|||Well, the first answer was partially right.





Move your (My) Documents folder to the other drive. In XP My Documents, In Vista/7 it's just Documents, but either way you can move this important system directory to another location. You MUST do this from the Target tab of the properties for My/Documents. If you do it any other way, it will only end in tears and frustration.





Right click on the My Documents icon and the first tab (at least in XP) should be Target. By default this value is 'C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\My Documents". Click Move... and then find your 1TB drive and select where you want it to go. This will cause the OS to move the contents and all the pointers and adjust the registry settings for everything that points to My Documents.





Nothing else will change, and it's business as usual. From now on when you open My Documents, it will just be in the new location. The only thing that might not work is something that looks specifically for C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USERNAME\My Documents, and not the variable system value for this path, which of course would be different for every user.|||move the documents and settings folder to the 1Tb drive you may have to edit the registry, or edit the registry pointing the games to a folder on the other drive

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