Install D&S folder on another drive

[carheim]

Hi,

when creating my own unattented XP Home CD I would like to place the whole directory "Documents and settings" in a drive different than the one containing "Program Files2 and other system directories.

Is it possible ? If yes, how can I identify my different drives when installing since there is no matching with Windows ?

Thanks

[IcemanND]

yes it is possible.

add to your winnt.sif file

[GuiUnattended]

ProfilesDir=”d:\documents and settings”

If the drive letter changes for some reason I don't think you could dynamically check this during the install, it would have to be a fixed drive letter.

Also the drive needs to be formated, not blacnk, just able to be written to before T-12 in setup.

[carheim]

What would happend if my second drive is not named D ? Will windows start ?

[IcemanND]

You can use any valid drive letter. And that is the drive it will be put on. If it does not exist you will get errors at boot up that you are using temporary profiles and whatnot and none of you settings will be saved for the user.

[T D]

On the topic of putting important folders and files on a diff. drive, how do you put the pagefile.sys on another drive?

[McoreD]

Glad to hear from people thinking in the same frequency.

Having Windows, Program Files and Documents & Settings in different drives gives number of advantages.

With only Windows folder in one drive, backup image size goes down to around 2 GiB.

Keeping a WINDOWS-VersionHistory.txt logging all the changes done to the system is fun too.

Sharing some discipline related to the topic.

http://wmwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Unattended_MCE

http://wmwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Una..._Server_2003_R2

Maintaining well this way, can have a perfect Windows setup.

Edited June 25, 2006 by McoreD

[allen2]

To put pagefile.sys to another drive, i simply modify the path for the pagefile.sys in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
PagingFiles=d:\pagefile.sys