Moving critical folders to another drive

In W98se, how does one move the following four folders (My Documents, Favorites, address book, email storage) off the system partition?

Using Ghost, if anything happens to my system and I need to restore the image, I don't want those folders' current info to be lost.

Also, I would like to be able to use these folders in a multi boot situation.

Is this done by manually editing the registry?

If so, how do I find those keys to edit?

Thanks! for your help.
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Later:

I'm learning!

Did a search for "address book" in this part of the forum and came up with a 3-page thread on registry editing.

Teaches me to do a search BEFORE asking questions

 

Also take a look at the Winguides article, Change the Location of System and Special Folders .

 

Thanks, Miz

I appreciate you directing me to that great site!

 

Another question

Do I change the name "Default," or the name of the folder on the Data side, or put e.g. "e:\" (no quotes) in front of the name of the folder on the Data side?

Exactly HOW do I change those?

Thanks

 

This is not just a one step process.

Just change the drive letter. ie. change C: to D:

Also do a serch and change. And then restart Windows and do and another search.

Very important item here.

When you get things changed to what you desire.

Go to C:\Windows\Sysbckup folder and DELETE ALL RB00X.CAB files Then restart Windows and it will make a new one.

If by some chance the RB00X.cab ffiles are not there lete us know and SOMEBODY will help to get them. As of right now I forgot where the setting for it is.

If this is not done and Windows ( or you ) decide to use one of those files your changes WILL BE LOST.

ALSO any backups ( you mention IMAGE ) you already have will be wrong. They need replacing also.

BillyBob

 

THANK YOU!! BillyBob

BillyBob,

I FINALLY got the courage last evening to try finishing the move of the docs and favs folders in Explorer by right-dragging and then "move here ". Cuz everytime I'd tried it before, I had never seen that "move here" menu, never having taken it to the end.

So, after moving them that way, I went into regedit and changed all the (Default)s I found; but didn't change anything else which pointed to the old location--such as files which had been unzipped, etc.

Just now after reading your kind post, I went into regedit and finished all the rest of the changes--except for two which I will note below--.... found the .cab file made this morning and copied it to my e: drive--just in case-- deleted all five .cabs in sysbckup and rebooted. Now I have just rb000.cab in there.

I did find a couple of entries that I'm not sure what I should do--if they need to be changed or left alone??

They both have (Default) under Name

Under Data one is
"My Documents Folder on Desktop" (which I don't like there so removed long ago)

the other is

"Favorites Band "


Thanks! again for all your help.

 

roxe

You are welcome.

I hope I have been of some help in keeping you out of problems that I discovered the hard time consumming way.

BillyBob