How to move the location of the 'My Documents' folder

How do I relocate the folder 'My Documents' in Win7 Ultimate. When I installed Win7 in March 2010 I moved it from the C: drive (where Win7 was installed and where C: was one of 4 partitions on my No 1 physical hard disk drive, the other partitions being D:, E:, and F:) to my main data drive (H:) (H: is simply one of 3 partitions on my No2 physical hard disk drive, namely G:, H:, and I:) but I have forgotten how I did that. Now my H: drive is constantly having bad sector problems and I want to move the My Documents folder to my I: drive. I have tested the I: drive with Steve Gibson's SpinRite program and it reports that the I: partition has no problems.

Open Explorer. Under Libraries you should see Documents and under, My Documents.
Right click My Documents - Properties - Location tab. Select move and browse to the new location.

Andrew Hart said:

Now my H: drive is constantly having bad sector problems and I want to move the My Documents folder to my I: drive.

I "never" save anything in the Documents folder for the only reason that if Windows gets corrupted, you say goodbye to your work, well there is still a change you can retrieve the files but that is another topic.
What I do I create a specific folder and sub directories on a separate partition or drive and if you feel comfortable, you can create a shortcut to that folder on your desktop.

Megahertz07 said:

Open Explorer. Under Libraries you should see Documents and under, My Documents.
Right click My Documents - Properties - Location tab. Select move and browse to the new location.

Many thanks, Megahertz07. That seems to have done the trick and it move all of the sub-folders like My Music, My Pictures and My Videos as well.

Brink said:

Hello Andrew, :)

In addition, the tutorial below can help refresh your memory on how to move your "My Documents" folder.

User Folders - Change Default Location - Windows 7 Help Forums

Many thanks to you as well, Brink. I will reread this tutorial. It looks familiar and I have a vague recollection that you may have referred me to it way back years ago when I originally sought help here in this forum before moving several folders (not just 'My Documents') in my user profile from my C: drive to my H: drive.

RoWin7 said:

I don't want any of my data on the C partition.

And for every software I install, I always go into the settings and set its working/save directory in the data partition or a separate drive in my case.
You'll notice that often programs automatically set a directory in the Documents folder which is a good thing for shared computers due to privacy concerns but if you're the sole administrator, then don't do it.