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Setting up User Directory on Separate Partition (D:\Users)
In Windows 7 you can modify the registry ProfilesDirectory key to create the
users directory on a separate partion, however, Microsoft recommends against it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949977 "This setting should be used only in a test environment. By changing the default location of the user profile directories or program data folders to a volume other than the System volume, you will not be able to service your Windows installation. Any updates, fixes, or service packs will fail to be applied to the installation. Microsoft does not recommend that you change the location of the user profile directories or program data folders." Can anyone comment on their experience with this? I'd really prefer to keep the user data all together thanks |
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Setting up User Directory on Separate Partition (D:\Users)
Hi, Sam.
I don't have experience with this, but Microsoft has a technical error in that KB article. Whoever wrote the article apparently is familiar with KB314470, but still made a faux pas in the passage you quoted. At the top of KB949977, it refers to %systemdrive% and then properly explains, "%systemdrive% is defined as the disk drive that contains the Windows directory." So, as KB314470 defines the term, this means the Boot Volume, and NOT the System Partition, which is also called the System Volume - but never the System Drive. Look in Disk Management's Status column to see which volume or volumes have the System and Boot labels. Open a Command Prompt window and enter the command, Set. This will list the environment variables, including these two lines: SystemDrive=C: SystemRoot=C:\Windows This is in my computer, in which the System Partition (1st partition on 1st HDD) is Drive D: and Drive C: is the 2nd partition (a logical drive) on the 2nd HDD. So my Users folder is C:\Users, on my Boot Volume, NOT D:\Users on my System Partition. OF course, in many computers, a single Drive C: serves as both System Volume and Boot Volume and the distinction is not important in those cases - but the KB article ought to get it right! I've given feedback at the bottom of KB949977 so we can hope that someone at Microsoft will pay attention and correct that soon. These are Microsoft's definitions, but even MS technical writers get confused by the many meanings of "boot" and "system" and "drive"...and several other common words used as terms of art in relation to computers and computing. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "Sam P" wrote in message ... In Windows 7 you can modify the registry ProfilesDirectory key to create the users directory on a separate partion, however, Microsoft recommends against it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949977 "This setting should be used only in a test environment. By changing the default location of the user profile directories or program data folders to a volume other than the System volume, you will not be able to service your Windows installation. Any updates, fixes, or service packs will fail to be applied to the installation. Microsoft does not recommend that you change the location of the user profile directories or program data folders." Can anyone comment on their experience with this? I'd really prefer to keep the user data all together thanks |
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Setting up User Directory on Separate Partition (D:\Users)
Sam P wrote:
In Windows 7 you can modify the registry ProfilesDirectory key to create the users directory on a separate partion, however, Microsoft recommends against it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949977 "This setting should be used only in a test environment. By changing the default location of the user profile directories or program data folders to a volume other than the System volume, you will not be able to service your Windows installation. Any updates, fixes, or service packs will fail to be applied to the installation. Microsoft does not recommend that you change the location of the user profile directories or program data folders." Can anyone comment on their experience with this? I'd really prefer to keep the user data all together thanks I tried this 6 weeks ago and I've not had any problems since. Here's a better description of the process: http://www.windows7hacker.com/index....nge-user-profi le-default-location-in-windows-7/ -- |
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