Importing My Documents from External Hard Drive - XP to Win 7

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  1. Posts : 25
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    Importing My Documents from External Hard Drive - XP to Win 7


    Up to about a week ago I had a Toshiba laptop with XP. Then I bought a new Toshiba laptop with Win 7. Here is my issue.

    I am a head-hunter. I use Outlook 2007 for keeping all my contact information for both Clients and Candidates. I keep all resumes in business folder within My Documents. Each Outlook entry has a link to the candidate's folder.

    On my old laptop, I backed up Outlook to a .pst file and copied to an external hard drive before formatting. I did that with all my files.

    So, when I imported from the external hard drive into my new computer, I noticed something odd. When I clicked on a candidate's link in Outlook Contacts, I got the following message: cannot find C:\documents & settings\.....\my documents\business backup\........\resumes\... verify path

    Furthermore, when I delete that hyperlink to recreate one, the address it shows is: C:\users\.....\Music\documents\business backup\.......\resumes\....

    Music? What are my files doing in Music? They are also listed in Documents.

    Can you help me to sort this out?
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  2. Posts : 5,795
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #2

    I don't have a suggestion at this time, but what you see is a perfect example why many of us don't use the "my" folders at all. I always use a second drive (or a partition if on a laptop) labeled as D for all of my user data, such as documents, photos, etc. If your paths were D:\Clients....then your links would still function properly.
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  3. Posts : 25
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    Thread Starter
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    So I deleted the document folder within the music folder. as expected, everything was deleted from document folder and the document folder within the music folder.

    I thought if I started from scratch I could fix it so instead of importing the whole my document folder, I imported each folder separtely making sure not to import the music folder.

    Guess what? They still showed up in the music folder. So, is there any way to create a partition without formating the hard drive?
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  4. Posts : 5,795
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
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    You can use software such as Partition Wizard to shrink your current partition, then create a new partition from the unused space.
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  5. Posts : 7,730
    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit
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    I agree with DeaconFrost.

    Create a separate data partition and forget about using Libraries.
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  6. Posts : 1,781
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit
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    It sounds like your music folder is actually a junction pointing back to the Documents folder.

    As for why this happened in the first place, the system path to user folders was changed between XP and Vista/7:

    • XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents
    • 7: C:\Users\username\Documents
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  7. Posts : 25
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    Short of reformatting and creating partitions, do I have any other recourse?
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  8. Posts : 1,781
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit
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    There's no need to reformat just to create another partition (given enough disk space of course). DeaconFrost suggested Partition Wizard which is excellent and freely downloadable as a bootable CD .iso image, ready to be burned to disc.
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  9. Posts : 7,730
    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit
       #9

    Use this tutorial to partition your hard drive without reinstalling Windows.

    Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD
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  10. Posts : 25
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
    Thread Starter
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    Thank you. I've looked at other partition programs but they all want money. I figure why spend more money when Microsoft is to blame for this screwup. Had they kept some things well enough alone, I would'nt be in this predicament.
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