How to move Administrator Account

[Guest]

Hello,

I have a space problem on my system drive.
- so i decided to move the whole profil directory to another partition.

i have an "Administrator" and "Programming" acccount.
- moved the directory via xcopy
- changed all registry keys for the user profiles

restarted and logged in again.

For "Programming" account it worked fine!

For "Administrator" it did not work!
The System created another account called "Administrator.<computername>".

I did the same game again.

- change registry for "Administrator.<computername>" to "Administrator"
- restart

Once again it did not work!
The System now created another account called
"Administrator.<computername>.000".

I guessed that it could be a writing privileges or ownership problem (i used
the flag for copying privileges in xcopy /E /F /H /K /O /C /R). Anyway
compared privilege settings. the "Administrator" account had inheritance of
privileges activated. i deactivated this setting.

my Administrator account has now full access for Administrator,
Administrator group and SYSTEM (no inheritance of privileges) which should be
fine.

same problem again the new account is now:
"Administrator.<computername>.001"

I do not know what to do anymore. Where is the problem? for the
"Programming" account it worked fine. How can i set the profil path for my
"Administrator" account?

any help is appreciated!

best regards,
gerd

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello,

I have a space problem on my system drive.
- so i decided to move the whole profil directory to another partition.

i have an "Administrator" and "Programming" acccount.
- moved the directory via xcopy
- changed all registry keys for the user profiles

restarted and logged in again.

For "Programming" account it worked fine!

For "Administrator" it did not work!
The System created another account called "Administrator.<computername>".

I did the same game again.

- change registry for "Administrator.<computername>" to "Administrator"
- restart

Once again it did not work!
The System now created another account called
"Administrator.<computername>.000".

I guessed that it could be a writing privileges or ownership problem (i used
the flag for copying privileges in xcopy /E /F /H /K /O /C /R). Anyway
compared privilege settings. the "Administrator" account had inheritance of
privileges activated. i deactivated this setting.

my Administrator account has now full access for Administrator,
Administrator group and SYSTEM (no inheritance of privileges) which should be
fine.

same problem again the new account is now:
"Administrator.<computername>.001"

I do not know what to do anymore. Where is the problem? for the
"Programming" account it worked fine. How can i set the profil path for my
"Administrator" account?

any help is appreciated!

best regards,
gerd

A safe, supported an fully documented method would consist
of moving the "My Documents" folder instead of the whole
profile folder. This is probably where most of the disk space
is being consumed.

 

[Guest]

Hello Pegasus,

I did knew about that, but i did not want to split my profiles.

I try to formulate my answer again:

Win xp is not loading my profile. instead it is generating a new one.

why?

i guess it is a privilege problem (the whole thing worked with an test
profile).

is ntuser.dat needed? because there is no ntuser.dat in my Administrator
profil.

How can i get an detailed error log?
(i had a look at the standard error logs, which was not very useful)

best regards,
gerd

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello Pegasus,

I did knew about that, but i did not want to split my profiles.

I try to formulate my answer again:

Win xp is not loading my profile. instead it is generating a new one.

why?

i guess it is a privilege problem (the whole thing worked with an test
profile).

is ntuser.dat needed? because there is no ntuser.dat in my Administrator
profil.

How can i get an detailed error log?
(i had a look at the standard error logs, which was not very useful)

best regards,
gerd

I am not aware of an approved method to move a whole profile
folder to a different drive. You could make yourself a name if
you can develop one, preferably without hacking the registry!