how to home documents & settings folder?

[David M.....]

I have just replaced my 40GB with a 120GB disk. When
installing XP home ed with SP1 I decided to partition the
disk into a 25GB partition for the OS and the rest for
user data.

How can I move documents and settings from the root disk
at c: to the new partition at d: ?

I tried to mount the partition at c:\documents and
settings but this failed as the folder was not empty and
I am unable to delete the contents as Windows claims them
as system files. I was also unable to create a junction
point for the same reason.

I have used right mouse click "my documents" to change
the target but this only moves my documents and not all
the other folders under c:\documents and
settings\my_userid such as favorites etc. I want to move
the whole of documents and settings\my_userid to the d:
partition. Can this done?

Thanks

 

[Patrick Pitre]

Hello there. Microsoft addressed this issue in Knowledge
Base article 236621. It's a bit lengthy to copy here.

Go to google.com and put this in the search bar
site:microsoft.com 236621 The first find is the article
you want.

Good luck.

 

[David Candy]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-21-1292428093-1993962763-1060284298-1003

[This number is me, every user (apart from some system accounts) has a differenty number].

The profile is stored by the value in Central Profile (ie roaming). Normally it is blank and the profile is stored where it is cached. The cached location is ProfileImagePath.

You can delete a profile if logged in as the cached profile is used while logged in with the main profile being copied over on logon and copied back on logoff. If your profile is deleted the cached one will be used on logon and/or recreated on logoff.

This is not about D&S but user profiles.

The D&S way should move ok on a new install but office installs paths that can't be searched for, so I don't think office will handle it - but it does handle a change of personal profile so maybe it can.

You can change the Central Profile whele logged in and the profile will be created in the new location on logoff. I think you can change the cache setting while not logged in, and if the profile exists it will work.

Make sure you have a spare admin account.

 

[David M]

Thanks for the replies. I had a look at 236621, it was a
simple change to point the user profile at a different
location. It does apply to XP as well as 2000, see
818134. The latter is the problem I now have! Basically
it does not work and there is non-general release fix. I
am still waiting for Microsoft to return my call on try
and get hold of a copy of this fix.

-----Original Message-----
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-21-1292428093-
1993962763-1060284298-1003

[This number is me, every user (apart from some system

accounts) has a differenty number].

The profile is stored by the value in Central Profile

(ie roaming). Normally it is blank and the profile is
stored where it is cached. The cached location is
ProfileImagePath.

You can delete a profile if logged in as the cached

profile is used while logged in with the main profile
being copied over on logon and copied back on logoff. If
your profile is deleted the cached one will be used on
logon and/or recreated on logoff.

This is not about D&S but user profiles.

The D&S way should move ok on a new install but office

installs paths that can't be searched for, so I don't
think office will handle it - but it does handle a change
of personal profile so maybe it can.

You can change the Central Profile whele logged in and

the profile will be created in the new location on
logoff. I think you can change the cache setting while
not logged in, and if the profile exists it will work.

 

[David M....]

Afriad it does not work. I have applied the fix q818134,
but %HOMEDRIVE% is still not set correctly. This fix is
meant to set %HOMEDRIVE% to D: rather than C:, but it
didn't, it still points at C:. I think if %HOMERIVE% was
correct it would work.

-----Original Message-----
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-21-1292428093-
1993962763-1060284298-1003

[This number is me, every user (apart from some system

accounts) has a differenty number].

The profile is stored by the value in Central Profile

(ie roaming). Normally it is blank and the profile is
stored where it is cached. The cached location is
ProfileImagePath.

You can delete a profile if logged in as the cached

profile is used while logged in with the main profile
being copied over on logon and copied back on logoff. If
your profile is deleted the cached one will be used on
logon and/or recreated on logoff.

This is not about D&S but user profiles.

The D&S way should move ok on a new install but office

installs paths that can't be searched for, so I don't
think office will handle it - but it does handle a change
of personal profile so maybe it can.

You can change the Central Profile whele logged in and

the profile will be created in the new location on
logoff. I think you can change the cache setting while
not logged in, and if the profile exists it will work.