Moving documents and settings folder to another partition

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Allgaeu-Tobias

I know this has been asked many time before, but I can’t find the
answer.

I want to move "C:\Documents and Settings" to
"D:\Documents and Settings".
I followed carefully all the steps in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843/en-us under
"Moving the entire folder".
But after a reboot the registry keys and values point again to
"C:\Documents and Settings".

Kindest Regards,
Tobias Heilig
 
ju.c said:
I recommend using 'Tweak UI'.

Open 'Tweak UI' and under 'My Computer/Special Folders' click the down arrow and select
'My Documents' then click the 'Change Location' button.
Click to expand...

I don't want ot move "My Documents" but rather the entire
"Documents and Settings" folder.
That can't be done with TweakUI.
The only way seems to be the one described in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843/en-us under
"Moving the entire folder".
But as I mentioned a reboot restores the registy entries to
"C:\Documents and Settings".
This last point is the problem.

Kindest Regards,
Tobias
 
I've re-written the directions on this link to be cleaner and easier to read.
http://www.dyonisii.com/cgi-bin/waterwheel/index.pl?case=win&sub=mds


MOVING THE '\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\' FOLDER TO ANOTHER DRIVE

The following is based on KB236621 but revised for XP.

1. Open Explorer.
2. Create a new folder called 'Documents and Settings' in
your desired drive.
3. Create a new profile with administrative permission and
call it "Mover".
4. Logoff then logon to the "Mover" account.
5. Copy all the folders inside 'C:\Documents and Settings\'
(except the 'LocalService', 'NetworkService', and 'Mover'
folders) to the new location. (The LocalService and
NetworkService folders will be re-created automatically.)
6. Open the Registry Editor and Find & Replace all
instances of "\Documents and Settings\", including:
- \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Documents and Settings\
- %SystemRoot%\Documents and Settings\
- %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\
- C:\Docume~1\
7. Shutdown your computer, wait 30 seconds then turn it on.
8. Logon to the 'Mover' account.
9. Repeat step 6.
10. Reboot and logon to your original account.
11. Test by renaming the '\Documents and Settings\' folder
in drive C. If you can rename it then it worked!
12. If everything is OK, then you can delete the 'Mover'
account that you created before.


ju.c
 
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