Change Location of Documents and Settings Folder during Windows Instal

[Anthony1uk]

Hi,

I was hoping someone could give me some pointers on how to achieve this.

Firstly I am not somebody who undergoes unattended installations, I have used Nlite to tweak my Installation CD but I have not done any switches on the installation procedure yet.

But my main goal is that I would like to have perminately on a separate hard drive my Windows documents and settings folder and have it remain there everytime I reinstall windows.

From Googling I have saw this switch

[GuiUnattended]

ProfilesDir=G:\DocSet

However it mentions I need to have this on a floppy inside my PC during windows installation to use this, I however don't have a floppy on my machine.

Which application would therefore be best to let me alter my windows installation CD to include this switch and implement it automatically during a windows instal off the CD.

And secondly, obviously how would I best do this with the recommended application.

Thanks

Anthony

[DJPro]

@Anthony

Actually you don't need a floppy,

Just put it in your 'winnt.sif' file in I386 directory of your windows cd.

Regards.

[Anthony1uk]

@Anthony

Actually you don't need a floppy,

Just put it in your 'winnt.sif' file in I386 directory of your windows cd.

Regards.

Hi, Thanks for this help,

But I have now just realized another problem.

But on my systems 4 (large) SATA Hard drives I have created 19 Partitions, for Dual Boots, storage folders and such.

But my folder for wanting my system files in is located in the second partition on the second hard drive of the four.

However when I reformat all my hard drive letters become garbled up from what I like them to be.

So my question is how can I either force during the installation procedure to keep this one particular partition as drive letter "D".

Or conversely let the winnt.sif file somehow locate and put the Documents and Settings folder into the second partition of the second hard drive without needing to rely on windows drive letters.

As in is there a way to set the removal by using a different naming location command than needing to use windows internal drive letter locations.

Thanks

Anthony

[IcemanND]

You will have to determine what the desired drive letter is during the install and have that vaule in the winnt.sif file.