Comments on: Move That My Documents Folder

By: Lynette

Lynette — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:32:24 +0000

That’s a good point and very true as well Tom. On one of my older PC’s I had a very small hard drive as the master – it contained only the operating system and everything else – data was saved to the 2nd internal hard drive which is much, much larger. Eventually, I may go back to that.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:00:22 +0000

I prefer to have data on a seperate drive, not just a seperate partition (ok, thats probably only possible with desktops).
The reason is that if you have it on different drives the read/write speed is better compared to having data and operating system on the same drive where the read/write heads has to switch from part where the op system is to the part where the data resides.
Using two drives lets you access data and system simultaneously.

By: Lynette

Lynette — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:36:10 +0000

Anywhere you wish but I wouldn’t move it to external drive. Like Tsoniki says, you’ll then have to keep the drive with the computer almost always and it can be slower accessing and saving your files too.

My hard drive is partitioned into several segments. In less techie speak that simply means I have the drive sectioned off into smaller segments. So instead of one huge C: drive that’s 250 GBs I have 4 drives C:/, D:/, E:/ and F:/ of different sizes.

I also used to have two hard drives in one computer so the My Documents got moved to the 2nd hard drive that was used for 100% file storage only.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:57 +0000

Where do you suggest moving it to Lynette?

By: Lynette

Lynette — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:00:33 +0000

They sure can Tsoniki. I’ve always done that with my computers.

By: Tsoniki

Tsoniki — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:34:04 +0000

Lynette, I didn’t know it could be moved! I’m tempted to move mine to my external hard drive but then I would have to have the hd with me all the time. Great tip!