Strange 'My Documents' Folder behavior after aborted upgrade to Windows Vista

Strange 'My Documents' Folder behavior after aborted upgrade to Windows Vista

My main computer is a Windows XP machine, and I've had it for a few years. I've been holding out for Windows 7, but a few months ago, the hard drive started failing and I needed to replace it. Rather than truly replace it, I dug up an old 30G hard drive and decided to reinstall onto it, putting all of my data onto a separate drive in the computer.

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"From a command prompt is the folder named My Documents or Aric's Documents?

Maybe this is a simple solution:
Create a new folder named My Documents on D:, change target of My Documents in XP then move the data over?

Edit: If you open the desktop.ini file in that folder what does it say? it's a hidden system file. I'm wondering if the PersonalizedName is set to Aric's Documents.

It should Look like this:

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=username
Personalized=5
PersonalizedName=My Documents"