toy4x4 Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 I saw something on moving and lost where it was.I'm wanting to move the Documents and Settings folder to another drive. Anyone have a link on how to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vann Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 By far the easiest way is to use the "ProfilesDir" option in winnt.sif. Just set ProfileDirs=<whatever>. I personally have a second partition, and so do ProfilesDir=D:\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arablizzard2413 Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 It depends on if you have Windows installed or not, if you do then I don't know of a way to do it. But if you don't have it installed, then you can use the winnt.sif file explained above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toy4x4 Posted August 30, 2004 Author Share Posted August 30, 2004 By far the easiest way is to use the "ProfilesDir" option in winnt.sif. Just set ProfileDirs=<whatever>. I personally have a second partition, and so do ProfilesDir=D:\I have partitions that houses most of my stuff that remains un touched. Generally will the Drive Letters remain the same when installing XP Pro from scratch on the boot drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolookingca Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Any more "portable" way? (2 systems, 1 cd, more than about 8 configurations or so, sort of time dependent) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 TweakUI is your friend. It allows you to change all the Windows Special Folders...(For an all-ready up and running system, for an unattended install, you have to modify your registry hive.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiden Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Here is the microsoft proscribed way to do it This is my redirect.reg file[Version]Signature=$CHICAGO$[DefaultInstall]AddReg=Reg.Settings[Reg.Settings] HKCU,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders,Personal,0x20000,"%PERSONAL%" HKCU,Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders,My Pictures,0x20000,"%PICTURES%" [Strings]PERSONAL = "\\DC1\Shared\%USERNAME%\My Documents"PICTURES = "\\DC1\Shared\%USERNAME%\My Documents\My Pictures"This method can be used for multiple users as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vann Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 AFAIK, that moves "My Pictures" but does not touch "Documents and Settings"In fact, Microsoft's recommended way of changing this after installation involves searching the registry and replacing every instance of "C:\Documents and Settings" with whtever you want. See this article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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