Moving Documents and Settings to a different partition?

[Xeronimo]

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

[fizban2]

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

[parallaxtz]

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.