Moving my User folders to a portable drive

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Strato - 21 May 2008 18:06 GMT

Hi,
I'm going to send my laptop to HP for repair. So I thought I should remove
all my documents and other data before that. I did a Ctrl-X on all the
folders under User (such as Documents, Pictures, etc) and a Ctrl-V on my
portable harddrive. I suppose that was a mistake for now, Vista always looks
for that drive. How do I undo my stupid mistake? Thanks.

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Chirag - 21 May 2008 18:16 GMT

Try the following:
1. Right-click on the "Documents" folder and select "Properties" menu item.
2. Select the "Location" tab.
3. If it mentions the portable drive as the location, select "Move..."
button to move the folder to your local machine.
4. Repeat the above steps for other folders like "Pictures", etc.

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> Hi,
> I'm going to send my laptop to HP for repair. So I thought I should
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> looks
> for that drive. How do I undo my stupid mistake? Thanks.

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Strato - 22 May 2008 00:31 GMT

Chirag,

Thanks a lot. That was what I was looking for.

> Try the following:
> 1. Right-click on the "Documents" folder and select "Properties" menu item.
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> > looks
> > for that drive. How do I undo my stupid mistake? Thanks.

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Rich - 21 May 2008 18:55 GMT

Remove the harddrive and send it in. Unless the hard drive is the problem
that is!

Rich

> Hi,
> I'm going to send my laptop to HP for repair. So I thought I should
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> looks
> for that drive. How do I undo my stupid mistake? Thanks.

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Mick Murphy - 21 May 2008 20:20 GMT

Ctrl + C is the copy; Ctrl + V is Paste; NOT X
Use above to send to External, or:
Whatever you want to send to External Drive; select it>right-click it> Send
To> to External

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> Hi,
> I'm going to send my laptop to HP for repair. So I thought I should remove
> all my documents and other data before that. I did a Ctrl-X on all the
> folders under User (such as Documents, Pictures, etc) and a Ctrl-V on my
> portable harddrive. I suppose that was a mistake for now, Vista always looks
> for that drive. How do I undo my stupid mistake? Thanks.

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Synapse Syndrome - 21 May 2008 20:44 GMT

>> I'm going to send my laptop to HP for repair. So I thought I should
>> remove
>> all my documents and other data before that.
>
> Ctrl + C is the copy; Ctrl + V is Paste; NOT X

He said he wanted to remove them from the drive before sending it in, so
Ctrl+X is what he wanted to use, for Cut.

ss.

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