Using storage hdd to hold user media?

[hanguk]

I'm using an ssd as a OS and boot drive and would love to use my storage for everything else including windows media hc. is there anyway to direct user library to the storage hdd?

 

[mwroobel]

I'm using an ssd as a OS and boot drive and would love to use my storage for everything else including windows media hc. is there anyway to direct user library to the storage hdd?

What you are looking for is an directory Symbolic Link (are you running windows?) For more info you can read up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link .
Lets say for example you want to have a directory called mydirectory which appears to be on drive C but actually keeps its files on drive d. You would do something like this from an admin command prompt: mklink /d link target or you can use something like like the open source symlinker GUI at http://code.google.com/p/symlinker/

 

[hanguk]

thanks alot, how do i reverse a symlink. unlink i guess?

 

[Forceman]

You can also just add a library location to Windows 7 and have that set as the default. Right-click on the library, then select properties, then add a new folder, then click on set save location. Not sure if that is exactly what you want, but easy to do.

 

[drescherjm]

thanks alot, how do i reverse a symlink. unlink i guess?

What do you mean by that?

 

[mwroobel]

you remove it with rmdir whetever_the_link_name_is or you can use the GUI I linked to above.

 

[Forceman]

thanks alot, how do i reverse a symlink. unlink i guess?

I use Link Shell Extension - it allows easy creation and deletion.

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html