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Question on How to Manage 2 Partitions
Hi everyone, I just installed W7 on a new drive which I called W: which I created by partitioning 35gb off of my original C: drive. However, now that I want to use W7 as my primary OS, I'm not sure how I should be handling my files. For example, all of my music. This is all located in a folder called 'Music' on my Vista Desktop, so to get to it I have to go to c:/users/eric/desktop/music to access my music. And then what I did is create a shortcut to that music folder on my W7 desktop so that I would not have to copy the 40gb+ of data across both disks. Is this how I should be accessing files from my original C: drive? The problem with this is that nothing on my C: drive comes up when I do a system search from W7, so if I search for 'music' or any song within the folder, nothing gets brought up. Is there a way to change where the search feature looks for files/folders? And lastly, when I do reinstall my software, do I want to be reinstalling it over the original files on the C: drive? Like when I reinstalled my anti-virus software, it defaulted to W:/Users/Program Files x64 or whatever, and so I changed it back to its original path in the C: drive and overwrote all the original files. What effect will this have? My reasoning for that is that I'm not going to have enough disk space to be having 2 copies of all of my stuff on it. I'm very new to this whole concept so any recommendations would be nice before I do any more work trying to set up my files again!