Can't find files after restore onto new hard drive

Hi,
I just installed a larger hard drive.  I saved a disk image to an external drive, made a recovery disk, booted off the recovery disk, and restored the saved disk image.   Then I took the new unallocated space, formatted it, and created a mounted volume in a folder on the C: drive (My Documents).  I moved everything under My Documents to this new mounted volume.  In other words: C:\My Documents is now a mounted volume, not actually in the C: partition.  
The trouble is, the files are there but in many instances they aren't findable.  It seems like there are caches of directory structures in various places that have to be rebuilt, or there are virtual pathnames (e.g. C:\Users\myusername\Documents) that have to be reset.  For example, I have a spreadsheet with references to values in other spreadsheets.  It can't find these anymore, even though the pathnames ought to be the same.  
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem?
Thanks very much.
- bill.

I have only played with XP for sure on changing the location of the my documents folder. It usually involves right clicking on it and going to properties and changing it. Sounds like you may need to copy things around, and then, edit the location on the my documents folder. I am not really sure what your situation is.

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