How to move Documents and Settings to another partition or drive.
// August 24th, 2009 // Uncategorized
Some people have wondered how to do it so here we go:
- Create a new temporary Administrative account, reboot your PC and log-in under the new profile. Include this account in the changes below unless stated otherwise.
- Open Regedit and modify the following key to point to your new profile location (e.g. D:\):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ProfilesDirectory
- Expand ProfileList and modify the following key in each profile (except S-1-5-18), replacing C:\Documents and Settings with the new profile location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\<profile>\ProfileImagePath
- Navigate to the key below and modify all string values so as C:\Documents and Settings points to the new profile location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\*
- Close Regedit, open Explorer (be sure you can view hidden files, including system) and copy all profiles (except LocalService(XP), NetworkService(XP) and the temporary profile you are using) from C:\Documents and Settings to the new profile location.
- Reboot your PC; log-in as Administrator and remove the temporary profile; and then delete C:\Documents and Settings.