How will windows 10 affect my D, E and F drives?

[ingeborgdot]

I have documents, pictures, and videos on different hard drives. How is this going to affect where Windows 10 puts my things?

 

[Elixer]

You set them up like how you want.
There is no change in that aspect.

 

[ingeborgdot]

Okay, but will I have to go in and make any changes so my documents will still go where I have them, as with my videos and pictures? When I put something in my videos will it go to the E drive where I have them or will I have to make some changes to get them to go there?

 

[bruceb]

Have a read here .. it should be able to answer your questions

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/change-default-save-location-windows-10

 

[MongGrel]

I should not affect them at all, have up to a H drive on mine and a few are RAID drives.

Unless something really weird happens, it should migrate everything as you have it now.

 

[Ketchup]

As others have stated, this will not change unless you have edited the registry to place certain things in certain places by default (moving the default My Documents folder to a D drive, for example). If you upgrade or do a fresh install of Windows 10, you will need to re-do your custom settings. I have no idea if Windows 10 keeps these in the same place, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.

 

[corkyg]

As long as you do an upgrade to 10, it will incorporate all your drive setups. If you do a clean install, you may have some work to do.

 

[SparkyJJO]

My system had the Documents, Pictures, Music, etc libraries moved to D:. After the upgrade to 10 everything was still exactly the same.

 

[ingeborgdot]

Okay. So it looks like the folders path will stay the same. Do I still need to go in and change the path in the storage section under system?

 

[SimMike2]

Not sure about Windows 10, but with Windows 7 if you did a clean install, Windows would install a small hidden partition to a secondary drive. When I tried to use Windows backup to make an image file of my OS drive, it wanted to include the entire drive where the hidden partition was located, which made making an image file way huger than it had to be. So from that time forward, I physically unplug my secondary storage drives when installing Windows. After Windows if up and running, I plug in the other drives.

 

[kitkat22]

Not sure about Windows 10, but with Windows 7 if you did a clean install, Windows would install a small hidden partition to a secondary drive. When I tried to use Windows backup to make an image file of my OS drive, it wanted to include the entire drive where the hidden partition was located, which made making an image file way huger than it had to be. So from that time forward, I physically unplug my secondary storage drives when installing Windows. After Windows if up and running, I plug in the other drives.

Ditto this - I always have just one drive hooked up while installing windows. then when it is up and running I add storage drives. then move file folders to the storage drive. Adds more time to the install but saves huge hassles when contending with that hidden partition.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Okay. So it looks like the folders path will stay the same. Do I still need to go in and change the path in the storage section under system?

No, it retains the settings.

Not sure about Windows 10, but with Windows 7 if you did a clean install, Windows would install a small hidden partition to a secondary drive. When I tried to use Windows backup to make an image file of my OS drive, it wanted to include the entire drive where the hidden partition was located, which made making an image file way huger than it had to be. So from that time forward, I physically unplug my secondary storage drives when installing Windows. After Windows if up and running, I plug in the other drives.

Good point, but only if doing a clean install. Doing an upgrade install retains existing settings/partition types/etc

 

[ingeborgdot]

Thanks.

 

[thewhat]

only if doing a clean install. Doing an upgrade install retains existing settings/partition types/etc

I did an upgrade 7 to 10 recently and it shrunk the C partition and created a 450MB "Recovery Partition".

(When you manually do a clean install, you can avoid both the Recovery Partition and the System Restore partition.)

 

[bruceb]

For stuff like the My Documents folder, just right click, then properties, you will see a tab in there
that allows you to modify where the folder will be located at (if you want to change it off C drive)

 

[SparkyJJO]

I've always had a system reserved on my primary drive since... Vista? How did you not have one?

 

[thewhat]

Because I chose not to. It's always been optional. It's still optional in Windows 10 if you clean install it manually.

 

[SparkyJJO]

But what's the point of not having it?

 

[Red Squirrel]

My guess is it will stay the same if the upgrade process looks at and sets the settings correctly. If not you can probably just set it back yourself. To be safe though I would probably disconnect those drives to do the upgrade. Sometimes weird stuff can happen and a secondary drive becomes primary for whatever reason, then you end up with the wrong one being installed to or wiped. Even in Linux if I'm doing an OS reload I disconnect all other drives to be safe.

 

[thewhat]

But what's the point of not having it?

I like to have one system partition with everything on it and always the same size (makes backups/restores a bit simpler). The system reserved partition size has changed with different Windows versions.
It's no big deal, I just like it better and there are no downsides for me.
If you use Bitlocker to encrypt the system partition you must have it, though.

 

[MongGrel]

As long as you do an upgrade to 10, it will incorporate all your drive setups. If you do a clean install, you may have some work to do.

That is pretty much the answer in a nutshell.

I've had very few problems just updating on the main myself, installed insider build 14379.rs1 the other day and is kicking along fine.