Windows 7 move home folder another partition

You should be able see the same path repeating again and again in screen. Q: ok, i did whatever i could but it seems that Windows still can't access my folder, sometimes it logs me in as temporary user?! A: It decreases portability because if you change your harddisk or move to another system you'll have to recreate links.

Q: Is it possible to move program files and programs data folder using the same method? A: Yes, It's possible. However i don't recommend it, it's known to stop windows update from working properly. Q: I think there is a Document and Settings folder on Windows 7 and Vista, shouldn't we move that as well? If you couldn't get it to work, don't hesitate to write a comment and describe your problem i'll help you if i can, there is also many useful resources at the end of this article which you can read for more information.

This almost worked flawlessly. This one seemed to be the cleanest and most thorough. I got nearly all the way through and hit a snag. I am currently wiping my entire machine and beginning again formatting partitions, fresh Win7 install, etc.

Then what? I navigated there and stared for a few moments, but what do I do next? There is no instruction, so I moved on to the next step. There is one directly above SW. There is however the rest of the tree. A: Unfortunately because of several issues with permissions and junction points i didn't have much luck with robocopy so decided to use xcopy which was also much easier to use. Thank you in advance for any assistance or recommendations. Great tutorial and format by the way.

Most professional one that I found on the topic. It will ask a name for this key. And regarding to your question about , i didn't mention that clearly so here is a more accurate version :. Which means that it's not referring to any specific key.

Dear Espen thanks for your comment, i updated the guide to include your suggestions and i'm sure many will find those improvements useful :. Skip to Main Content Area. As Open Source idealists start becoming disillusioned, there are more and more crappy articles by people just writing for clickbait, and for deadlines.

It makes me sad. My problem is that I believe in separating code and data. That is why I create two partitions, one for Linux and programs and a separate partition for my data. However, Linux developers insist that the home directory is in the same partition as the Linux code. But my point was this is rampant throughout all distros in the 80s and 90s.

Early Linux books all explain this. Maybe an extra D; disk, or network disk tat might be Z: or K:. Forget individual partitions. So, after rabidly going after Windows users for 20 years, Most large Linux distros gave up and made it convenient to put everything, or nearly everything in one partition, so users could transition. Humans generally are too stupid to keep track of partitions. We are drowning in stupidity every day. I have a 1 Tb disk installed and I am preparing to partition it etc.

I am confused about the partitions you create in your examples. I made a decision and flew with it. Also, shopt -s dotglob if using cp. Not sure if rsync does hidden files by default, I have always just enabled dotglob for it if I want it to include hidden files. At that time, other programs may crash or even create new directories. Should we not first mount the new drive?

But I still have no idea what I did wrong. I copied your procedure line by line into a LibreOffice document both to check what I was doing and for future reference, adjusting the partition name and UUID as I went.

I think this is what messed me up last time. It seems to be missing something. I cloned the snapshot of the failed VM and edited the fstab file in a live CD. It work perfectly. Have a question or suggestion? Please leave a comment to start the discussion. But this appears to be the intentional behaviour of symlinks. Several months on for me, and it's like nothing was ever changed. Unfortunately, that post no longer seems to be there the site crashed shortly after, and I think they had to resort to backups or something.

It's too good a method to let it disappear. It's also best to do this on a clean install of Windows, unless you don't mind waiting awhile I've read all I could find about this, and the information below is correct and tested:. To most easily move all user files and user program files off your boot drive an SSD in my case , follow these instructions. Open System by clicking the Start button, right-clicking Computer, and then clicking Properties. In the left pane, click System protection. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Click the System Protection tab, and then click Create. In the System Protection dialog box, type a description, and then click Create. At the screen with the "Install Now" choose "Repair your computer" 3. Then Make sure that Windows 7 is listed as one of the installed OS's available for recovery, and that it's selected and then press next.