Hi,

I'd like to move Documents and Settings to a different partition under Windows 7 (or at least 'My Documents' for my profile).

Is that possible and if yes, how?

Thanks a lot!

Jerome

Jerome, You will want to move the Documents folder. you can got to the properties of the folder and change where it lives on the locations tab

It is possible to move both Users (the new name of Settings & Documents) as well as ProgramData (writable location for programs to use -- they're not allowed to use ProgramFiles post install for data).

You can do this manually after you have installed Windows via a few registry hacks, but it is somewhat of a pain to get the files transfered properly. Doing it after windows setup will leave crud files in the original location.

Preferably, it is possible to make a special setup of windows (either a custom disc or just an autounattend.xml) that will automatically place your Users and ProgramData folders on another harddrive or partition. There are instructions in the Unattended Windows 7 forum here concerning this. It's a little confusing at first, but ultimately is very powerful -- you can create very customized windows setup discs that can also install other useful things (firefox, chrome, office, etc) all off the one disc. It can become sort of like a recovery disc from a PC manufacturer.