Why?

The main reason for doing this is to move your My Documents folder to a seperate hard disk so that if you experience any problems with Windows your documents are still safe and sound on their own disk.

There are some issues with 3rd party applications that save things in your “My Documents” folder; poorly written software will not take into account that users may move their My Documents folder, so assumes you are always using the default. This can result in data loss if you ever do have to wipe Windows.

How To Do It?

This is a relatively easy one, first, decided where you are going to put your My Documents folder (i.e. in a folder on a seperate drive, in a different folder on your system drive). If you want to use a specific folder for your documents folder then you’ll need to create that folder first.

Once you’ve established where you want your “My Documents” folder to be, right click on “My Documents” and select “Properties”, you should get a window similar to this one:

Click on “Move” and you should get the following screen:

Mapping your "My Documents" folder

From here, select where you want your “My Documents” folder to be and then click OK, then click OK on the “My Documents Properties” window.

Job Done! From now on, your “My Documents” folder will be permanently mapped to the location you selected.