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Move your data folders to a separate drive
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
Windows Vista makes a few fundamental changes in the default folders used to store personal 
data. For starters, the Documents and Settings folder is gone, replaced by the Users folder, which is located in the root of the system drive (usually C:). Each user account has its own profile folder here, which contains 11 folders, each devoted to a different type of data.
If you have multiple hard drives (or multiple partitions on a single hard drive) you can relocate any of these user folders. The advantage? By separating system files from data, you make it easy to back up and restore each. At least once a month, you can use the backup program in Windows Vista Ultimate Edition to create an image-based backup on DVD or an external hard disk. If something happens to your system drive, you can restore the image, and your data files remain unaffected. Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise » Windows Vista Tip #4: Move your data folders to a separate drive
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