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| message from i-ball on 7 Jun 2004 |
Hi everyone,
I have just installed Win XP and I have 3 Partitions. I would like to store
all, if not most, of the user information to D:\ drive and all Apps and
system go to C:\ drive. I would like the "Documents and Settings" folder to
be located in D:\ drive. How can I configure XP to do this so that any new
user created will have their docs & settings in this folder.
Thanks,
ian
to e-mail me, ians_mail@yEEEEhoo.com
pls. amend the obvious.
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| Tom replied to i-ball on 7 Jun 2004 |
Hi,
You can't move that folder from the partition where the operating system is
installed. Since it is a system oriented folder, regarding users, it has to
reside on the same partition. Even if it were possible, and something went
wrong with the operating system on the system partition, and it needed
repairing or a reinstallation, that folder on the other partition would be
useless since it would have no reference to link it with the system.
If you want to create folders for particular people on the other partition
for saving identities, files etc, you can do this. Also, each named folder
in the D&S folder can be protected from another going into it, so the need
to have it on another partition is really not needed, and it would also
render the need to format the second partition as to reinstall all "systems"
folders properly.
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| Tom replied to i-ball on 7 Jun 2004 |
Good Luck, I do not recommend it.
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| =?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWRl?= replied to Tom on 7 Jun 2004 |
Sorry for my English...I hope I have understood what i-ball needs...
Davide
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| Tom replied to =?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWRl?= on 7 Jun 2004 |
D drive...it's simply...If you log-in with username of user that you want to
"move"...right click on my documents->properties->move...and you can set the
destination that you want...
That is only for the "My Documents" folder, not the user name folder in
Documents and Settings, or the D&S in totality
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| Bruce Chambers replied to i-ball on 7 Jun 2004 |
Greetings --
WinXP won't allow you to move the entire \Documents and Settings
folder, but you can move the My Documents folder to another partition,
if you like.
How to Change the Default Location of the My Documents Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q310147
Bruce Chambers
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