I have a drive that is partitioned into C and D, and intend to overwrite the C partition completely. The machine had previously been thru a virus/trojan attack that I already did a "repair" with the system disk that I created a new system folder called "WinXP". The "Windows" system folder is still on the C drive but doesnt do anything. I've confirmed this by looking at the boot.ini file and see that the machine boots from the WinXP directory.
Now, I have questions about the "My Documents" folder which I previously had pointed over to my D drive (music, video, personal data) by changing the desktop shortcut property path. I also noticed that WinXP_user has a directory. I recently booted into safe mode and was noticing (in a DOS screen) that the OS seems to associate the shortcuts from C with directory names on the D drive. But when I boot to windows, I dont see those same names. (I'm not sitting at my home PC now to give good examples, and sorry if I'm not explaining this very well) I'm afraid of wiping out the data in those folders on the D drive when I reinstall the OS, unintentionally. Am I safe to assume these are just linked folders? Do I need to manually rename these folders? Can someone explain this? I really dont want to lose any D drive data.
Now, I have questions about the "My Documents" folder which I previously had pointed over to my D drive (music, video, personal data) by changing the desktop shortcut property path. I also noticed that WinXP_user has a directory. I recently booted into safe mode and was noticing (in a DOS screen) that the OS seems to associate the shortcuts from C with directory names on the D drive. But when I boot to windows, I dont see those same names. (I'm not sitting at my home PC now to give good examples, and sorry if I'm not explaining this very well) I'm afraid of wiping out the data in those folders on the D drive when I reinstall the OS, unintentionally. Am I safe to assume these are just linked folders? Do I need to manually rename these folders? Can someone explain this? I really dont want to lose any D drive data.