Re: Hard drive partition

From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:22:48 +1100

"Philip Herlihy" <foof8501@herlihy.eu.veil.com> wrote in message
news:uXNCC4ewEHA.3908@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > Further to the subst command proposed by Philip, you could also create
> > a share, then map a drive letter to it.
> >
>
> Never thought of that! SUBST is more flexible, though, if you just want a
> drive letter to point to a folder on the same machine, although if you
have
> a folder shared, you could set the drive mapping to be persistent, and
never
> have to worry about it again. Hmmm....
>
> > As a general observation: I would never set up a server (or, in fact,
> > a workstation) with just one drive. In my opinion, the operating system
> > and the applications should reside on drive C:, and all data must go
> > somewhere else. Tossing everything into the one drive causes all
> > sorts of maintenance problems. You're experiencing just one of
> > them - there are several others.
> >
> >
>
> On that point, it's easy enough to redirect your "My Documents" folder
into
> another partition, but what would be the best way to redirect the whole of
> Documents and Settings, so that Desktop and all the rest go with it? A
> junction point?
>
> --
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> ## PH, London
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>
>

Right-click "My Documents" on the desktop, click "Properties", then
change the location.

You can get the Task Scheduler to issue the subst command automatically
at start time. The substituted drive should be visible to all accounts.

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