You're Going To Laugh...

Ok so the story is I was trying to move my largest user folders to a separate drive (lets call it E:\Desktop) for easier backups, since I keep most of my files on desktop anyway.

However, when I moved it, I made the mistake of moving it to the root of my operating system folder (lets call it C. Now the system literally thinks my Desktop is my root drive, and I have all of the folders from that drive on my desktop (C:\Program Files etc).
How the heck do I undo this? I tried undo move, it didn't work. If I try to move desktop to E: as I should have originally, it will actually try to move crucial OS files like System 32 and I'll succeed in bricking a laptop which should be impossible.
To make matters worse, the drives aren't nearly the same size, the one I would have to move it to is 5x smaller.

I don't want to mess this up any more than I already have, please someone tell me there's a way to manually redirect what your OS thinks is desktop, because that's the only way I see of undoing this error. Please someone who gets Windows 7 a bit better help me out here!!

 

Might be proved wrong but I doubt you can sort this here, with time differences etc. Do you have any backups of your personal stuff? If so I recommmend you bite the bullet and perform a clean install of 7.

 

It's not backed up, I was going to back it up after the move. Reinstall isn't an option otherwise I'd just have done that, main drive is a SSD it's really fast.

 

Is that it?

Reinstalling OS is my only option?!?!

 

I would be pretty confident that if someone totally familiar with Windows could sit with you then it would be sorted, but without access to your screen I feel it's asking too much. My 2p anyway.

 

Might sound a silly suggestion, but have you tried system restore?

 

Or creating a new user profile?

 

This worked.

It was a shitload of work for like 5 hours, but it worked, and it's backed up. There really is no way to do this except manual, which I find absolutely ridiculous, but maybe I'm the first to make such a dumb mistake. To make matters worse the drive I made desktop was removable, which meant if I disconnected it I wouldn't have a desktop.

I haven't, mostly because I'm on admin as is.