If you want to use a separate disk drive or partition for your data there is an easy way to do it. It’s a good idea for several reasons:

Easier backups – Just tell your backup program to backup everything on Drive D:

Easier restores – Same as backing up, restore everything on Drive D: (or whatever).

Easier to reinstall Windows – This will come up again, maybe several times. Reinstalling Windows is the best way to clean a virus and it’s the best way to speed up your system.

Here’s how:

Find your My Documents folder, anywhere. On the Start Menu or in Explorer.

Or if it’s on your Desktop, that will work too.

First copy My Documents it’s new location. Yes you could Cut and have it moved, but I would rather make sure it fits and it works before I delete the original location.

Right Click and get this:

Change the Target to where your new My Documents is.

That’s all there is to it.