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| | Move Users directory to another drive. I want to move my C:\Users directory to a non-system drive D:\ so that it is seperate for operating system images and reinstalls. I have read that it needs to be done as a fresh install using Windows Automated Instalation Kit (AIK) and the unattended.xml file it generates. I have downloaded Windows AIK but am not sure what to do at this point. If anyone has done this and could provide some answers it would be appreciated. Thanks for any help. Robert |
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| | Re: Move Users directory to another drive. "Robert McMillan" <rmcmillan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%231UhYcV8IHA.3648@xxxxxx Quote: >I want to move my C:\Users directory to a non-system drive D:\ so that it >is seperate for operating system images and reinstalls. I have read that it >needs to be done as a fresh install using Windows Automated Instalation Kit >(AIK) and the unattended.xml file it generates. I have downloaded Windows >AIK but am not sure what to do at this point. If anyone has done this and >could provide some answers it would be appreciated. > Thanks for any help. I tried doing this when I started using Vista RC2, using junction points, but I never got it to work. I ended up just moving the user shell folders and pointing to the new locations with junction points in the original locations. Some of those folders (the larger ones) would be on different drives for me anyway, and can even be network locations with Vista's symbolic links. The problem is that apart from the hidden AppData folder, the user folder also contains the user hive of the registry (HKCU). Anyway, this guy seems to have done it, but I really do not think it is worth the hassle of moving the whole user folder, unless you have many users. And if you do, you might as well be using active directory and roaming user profiles. I think it is worth moving the TV recording from the Public folder on the boot drive to another one though, to save wear on my Raptor drives, and make things neater. http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2007/...tion-in-vista/ ss. |
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| | Re: Move Users directory to another drive. "Robert McMillan" <rmcmillan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%231UhYcV8IHA.3648@xxxxxx Quote: >I want to move my C:\Users directory to a non-system drive D:\ so that it >is seperate for operating system images and reinstalls. I have read that it >needs to be done as a fresh install using Windows Automated Instalation Kit >(AIK) and the unattended.xml file it generates. I have downloaded Windows >AIK but am not sure what to do at this point. If anyone has done this and >could provide some answers it would be appreciated. > Thanks for any help. > Robert ???? Assuming you already have the drive, cant you just use the location tab in the user files properties?? |
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