Documents and Settings to drive other than Windows drive

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Hello all. I've just installed W2K on my PC with partitioned drives C:\
(for Windows) and D:\ (for Data). Presently, I have WINNT, Program Files
and the Documents and Settings Folder on the C:\ drive. I would like
Documents and Settings to be located on my D:\ drive, but don't know how to
accomplish this. I've tried to drag from C:\ and drop to D:\ but this won't
work, neither will cut & paste. During installation, the only thing the
setup program asked of me was where I wanted to install the OS, which I
answered C:\. There were no more specific questions concerning where to
install certain folders. If I need to reinstall Windows, I have no problem
doing this as I haven't installed any other software yet.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
This is definitely NOT something that I would recommend that you do or
even try but if you really feel that you have to see here:

Cannot Move or Rename the Documents and Settings Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q236/6/21.ASP&NoWebContent=1

After you do that get ready to receive System events 7000 and 7009.
Then you can go here to see how to fix your screw ups:

4952 » After you redirect the 'Documents and Settings' folder, you
receive System event 7000 and 7009?
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBJ/tip4900/rh4952.htm

Note the fix for the problem: "To fix the problem, move any service
account profiles back to the original partition." Feel like going
around in circles?

John
 
brian.dickey wrote in
Hello all. I've just installed W2K on my PC with partitioned
drives C:\ (for Windows) and D:\ (for Data). Presently, I have
WINNT, Program Files and the Documents and Settings Folder on the
C:\ drive. I would like Documents and Settings to be located on
my D:\ drive, but don't know how to accomplish this. I've tried
to drag from C:\ and drop to D:\ but this won't work, neither will
cut & paste. During installation, the only thing the setup
program asked of me was where I wanted to install the OS, which I
answered C:\. There were no more specific questions concerning
where to install certain folders. If I need to reinstall Windows,
I have no problem doing this as I haven't installed any other
software yet.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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MS has KB articles on this, but I recommend you don't try to do it.
If it's a issue of space perhaps soething like Partition Magic can help
you resize the partitions/drives. Backuup first.
 
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