[SOLVED] Moved Desktop

[kkilgore]

I was trying to free up space on my 250GB 'C' drive and stupidly moved my Desktop folder from C-->User-->(my computer name) to my F drive (a second internal hard drive) by clicking on Properties and using the 'Location' option. But I started encountering problems - no 'desktop' option in My Computer, a bunch of new folders on my actual desktop, etc. So I tried moving it back to its original location using the 'move to' option at the top of the F window. My C drive started filling up rapidly so I stopped the process at around 3.5 GB. When I click on a folder on the desktop I get this path: This PC > F:\ > Desktop > (folder name)

Now everything is screwed up. My C drive is virtually filled, and F is operating as my desktop. I can't find files and folders that normally I could access from My computer -->Desktop, because that path no longer exists. I tried to do a system restore, but my restore points are gone. I then went to F-->Properties-->Location and selected 'restore default location' but encountered the message: 'Failed to build the list of regular subdirectories under F\System Volume Information. Access is denied.' Obviously, I am not a computer expert, and I don't know anything about roots, etc. but I am really desperate for some advice as to how to proceed.

I believe my best course of action is to do a repair install using an in-place upgrade; however, this requires more than 8 GB additional space in my Windows drive. The frustrating part is that I can't seem to increase space in the C drive. When I move a large folder to another drive, the C drive space doesn't increase - it's stuck at around 3.5GB. I'm afraid this has something to do with trying to relocate the desktop after I had moved it. What to do?

 

[kkilgore]

I finally freed up space on my C drive, as well as the F drive which was operating as the desktop. I then took a chance and went back to F-->Properties-->location and selected the default location C for the desktop. As Colif claimed, I was given (and selected) the option of not moving the content, which is where I screwed up last time. This time it seems to have restored my desktop to my desktop. The restored desktop is a mess, with a lot of empty and missing folders - yes, I have a lot on the desktop and probably shouldn't - but because everything was still in F (and other drives where I saved content), I just copied it (to be on the safe side, rather than to cut and paste) on to the desktop. So things are looking a lot rosier and I learned a lot - after all these years still - and I thank everyone who tried to assist and refrained (more or less) from snide remarks about what an idiot I was to mess up like this in the first place.