Assign User folder to different partition?

67GTA

67GTA

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My dad bought a Dell Inspirion with Vista. I went to help him set up some security apps, and noticed after trying to download spybot, I got a "disk is full" error. I knew he had plenty of space with a 250GB drive. I checked the partitions and saw C:\ and E:\. C is the main OS partition, and E is recovery. I noticed the recovery partition was full. After looking at the files in E:\, I saw the Users folder. This is a factory install from Dell, and have never seen this happen before. Every other folder is in C:\. I am a Linux user and am used to manually setting mount points, but don't know what the procedure is in Windows. I can move the Users folder back to C:\, but how do I tell Vista where to look for it once it is moved? Thanks in advance.
 

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Hello 67GTA.



It the E: is a Dell 'Factory Recovery Partition' and you move it or do anything to it, it may not function correctly afterwards, it would be best to leave it alone.
 

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I use different tools for recovery. I'm not too worried about the recovery partition. I was just wondering if there was an "official" method for this. I have read several articles on line, but all seem to have side effects. I couldn't find anything in the Microsoft knowledge base. I can always just reinstall.
 

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did he somehow re-direct user folders to write to that partition.??/

when u lets say download a file, where it is being saved too?
 

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I'm pretty sure my dad didn't do it. He only knows how to open IE, and check his yahoo mail. Aside from that, he doesn't do anything else. I just assumed it came from the factory that way. He said the disk space error has popped up ever since he turned on the computer for the first time. When I try to download something, it points to E:\ where the Users folder is. There is also a Users folder in C:\, but it doesn't look like it has ever been used.

Brink: I got your reply before posting this. I was going to move E:\Users to C:\Users, but didn't know how to tell Vista where to look for it afterwards. That looks like it will work. I will give it a try this weekend. Thank you.
 

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