Q about the location of the My Documents folder

Hi

I'm using XP Pro SP2.

I have the "My Documents" Folder located on a separate physical drive.

If I remove* that drive and restart Windows I wondered how it would cope
with the My Documents folder not being in the location expected? Would it
cause a big problem or simply create a new My Documents folder in the
default location?

*If you're interested to know why... well I need to run a Windows based
diagnostic on some other drives and as my system case is pretty full up its
more convenient to remove the drive which happens to store the documents
folder.

Thanks

Ian

Ian R <sorry.DeleteThis@nospamthanks.com> wrote

> I'm using XP Pro SP2.

> I have the "My Documents" Folder located on a separate physical drive.

> If I remove* that drive and restart Windows I wondered how it would
> cope with the My Documents folder not being in the location expected?
> Would it cause a big problem or simply create a new My Documents
> folder in the default location?

It wouldnt even do that if you dont use Office etc. The My Documents folder
is really just the default location for stuff like that, if its not present, it wont care.

> *If you're interested to know why... well I need to run a Windows based diagnostic on some other drives and as my
> system case is pretty full up its more convenient to remove the drive which happens to store the documents folder.

That'll be fine.