Oh, that's a shame, ZZ.  It can be rather fun poking around in the innards of your computer.  ;-)

I'm glad that my confirmations were helpful.  Reading this thread has made me get that itchy-palms feeling again; making me consider doing another rebuild.  Of course, it's barely been a month since my last one, so I think I should probably wait.  If I sit on the urge long enough, it'll pass.  There are no glaring bugs or problems that require a rebuild, after all.

Tammy

Well, if you're REALLY paranoid about accidentally formatting both HDs at once, you can do the very simple, absolutely sure thing, and physically disconnect the drive you don't want to be touched, and then set the remaining drive as the master.  Or, if that's a bit daunting, you can simply disable the HD you don't want touched, by going into the BIOS and selecting that drive, and choosing 'Not Installed', until you're finished with your rebuild and ready for the drive to be available again.

And yes, I've used both methods, several times.  I usually wind up rebuilding my entire system from completely shredded hard drives, about two or three times a year, just because I get bored.  ;-)

Tammy

ETA:  One of these days, I'm going to learn to read ALL of the messages before posting, and learn to combine replies.  Yeah.

It is very easy, and quite safe, to move the 'My Documents' folder to a different drive.  In fact, it can be done right on the desktop.  Right-click on the 'My Documents' shortcut, and bring up 'Properties'.  You'll see that the location of the My Docs folder can be browsed and re-set to wherever you want it to be.  Choose the new location; the computer will ask you if you want to move all your data from the old location to the new one.  Click 'ok' and there you go -- everything's been moved to the new place.  And yes, Sims 2 will find the folder automatically, and will run just fine, and you won't even need to re-install Sims.

Mine's supposed to get here tomorrow, too.  I'm going to start with a completely fresh install, and slowly port over the hacks I've collected.  You know, do it RIGHT this time!  ;-)

Tammy

Let me see if I understand this 'vanishing room' technique.  You stack a pile of dorm doors in front of a closet, and let all the dormies claim one, so all the dormies end up going through their particular dorm door into the closet, where they all 'live'?  Is that about right, or am I way off-track here?

Tammy