Windows 7 transfer users to another drive. How to move user folders to another local drive in Windows

21.02.2010 Categories:,

During a normal Windows installation (be it XP, Vista or Seven), the folder with user profiles is always located on the system drive. If you have several disks (whether they are logical or physical), then it is quite reasonable to store user files on a disk other than the system one. This greatly simplifies the process of backing up files and allows you to make the system disk truly compact, which in turn greatly simplifies the creation of its image.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has not provided a standard procedure for moving user profile folders (moving during OS installation using a file automatic installation, as well as the possibility of transferring separate folders inside the user profile does not count). To solve the problem, I had to scour the Internet for quite a long time, and as a result I came across a very interesting one. However, the method proposed there seemed rather crude, because... required significant registry modifications. But in the comments to the article a really simple and working idea flashed: using symbolic links. What is it? Roughly speaking, these are shortcuts, but at the level file system. In Vista and Seven, the command is used to create them mklink, in XP everything is a little more complicated, you need to use the utility linkd.exe from the composition. Before following the instructions, I strongly recommend make a full backup of the system disk(using utilities like Acronis TrueImage or Norton Ghost).

Instructions updated 10/07/2010.

Moving the Users folder (Windows 7, Vista)

Let's assume that we need to move the Users folder from drive C to drive D.

1. Opening Total Commander(or any other file manager). It is necessary to enable the visibility option hidden files. Copy the contents of the folder C:\Users to D:\Users. Copy all folders except All Users And Default User(these are not folders, but symbolic links that will need to be created again), and we also skip the current user’s folder.
   Before starting copying, enable the option “Copy NTFS access rights (administrator rights required)”; this will allow you to skip step 12:

   During the copying process, access to some files may be blocked (I had several tmp files blocked) - no problem, we skip them.

2. Changing the keys:
   Default to D:\Users\Default
   ProfilesDirectory to D:\Users
   Public to D:\Users\Public.
3. Now create a new user (for example test) with administrator rights(right click on Computer -> Manage -> Local Users -> Right click on the Users subgroup -> New user).
4. Copy the remaining profile of the main user.
5. Rename the C:\Users folder to Users-old (or any other name at your discretion).
6. Now you can start creating symbolic links. Opening command line and sequentially enter the following commands: mklink /j c:\Users d:\Users mklink /j "d:\Users\All Users" c:\ProgramData mklink /j "d:\Users\Default User" d:\Users\Default mklink /j "d:\Users\All Users" c:\ProgramData
7. Reboot and log in under your normal profile. Let's check if everything works as before (it should!). If everything is OK, delete the temporary user (test).
8. Unlike Windows XP, Windows 7 and Vista also contain symbolic links within the user profile. When copied, the links become corrupted (turned into folders). Restoring them manually takes a long time, so I wrote a cmd file that automates this process (thanks snidekit). Download it and open it in WordPad (WordPad is needed to open/save a file in dos-866 encoding; notepad, unfortunately, has lost this function). We edit the first line (set userfolder=d:\Users\default) - here you need to enter the path to the user profile folder (if you have it different from d:\Users). First we restore the default profile. I recommend saving Symlinks.cmd to your desktop and running it as usual by double-clicking it. Next, we edit the userfolder parameter again, replacing default with the name of another user’s folder. In this way, we sequentially restore symbolic links for the profiles of all users.
9. Now the last step remains. When you copy folders from one drive to another, the security settings for them are usually not saved. Folders in D:\Users will inherit the security settings set for the entire D drive. For all profile folders, you must do the following:
   Open the Security tab (Right click on the folder -> Properties -> Security). At the bottom, click on the Advanced button. The Permissions tab will open, at the bottom there is another Change button - click. In the window that opens, uncheck the “Add permissions inherited from parent objects” option. When asked to copy or delete permissions, answer Copy. In the same window, remove everything unnecessary from the list of permissions. There must be permissions for the System, the administrator group, and here you must enter the user account to which the profile belongs and assign rights to it full access. For the Public folder, instead of a specific user account, you need to add the “Everyone” group with full access rights.
10. After this, we reboot again and make sure that everything is working correctly.
11. Delete the Users-old folder.
12. Turn back on User Account Control (UAC). That's all!

Moving the Documents and Settings Folder (Windows XP)

Let's assume that we need to move the “Documents and Settings” folder from drive C to drive D and rename it to Users.

1. Open Total Commander (or any other file manager). It is necessary to enable the option to see hidden files. Copy all folders from c:\Documents and Settings to d:\Users ( except the current user's folder!).
2. Launch the registry editor (enter regedit at the command line) and go to the section HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.
3. Changing the key ProfilesDirectory to D:\Users.
4. Create a new user (for example test) (right click on My Computer -> Manage -> Local Users -> Right click on the Users subgroup -> New User) with administrator rights.
5. We reboot and log into the system under the newly created user (test). Please note that the test user profile files will be created in the new D:\Users folder.
6. Copy the user folder that we skipped in step 1.
7. Open the registry editor, go to the section HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. This section has subsections of the form S-1-5-…… Open them in order and change the parameter ProfileImagePath(for example, change %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\User to d:\Users\User).
8. Rename the “Documents and Settings” folder to “Documents and Settings.bak”.
9. Open the command line and create a symbolic link: linkd "c:\Documents and Settings" d:\Users
10. Reboot and log in to the system under your normal profile. We make sure that everything works correctly, after which we delete the temporary user (test) and the “Documents and Settings.bak” folder.
11. We restore security settings (see point 10 of the instructions for Windows 7).

How else to free up space on the system disk:

For some reason, Microsoft has abandoned the ability to transfer profiles for client versions of its operating systems, starting with Windows Vista. I don’t know what this is connected with, but when you go to the “User Profiles” menu, you will see that the profile copy button is disabled.

But like many other restrictions imposed by Microsoft, this can also be bypassed, do everything according to the instructions and you will succeed ;)

This article is suitable for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1. So, in order:

1) Log in under your administrator account.

2) Create new folder to store your accounts; in my case it will look like this:

3) Next, you need to create a new user with administrator rights. To do this, go to “Control Panel” → “User Accounts” → “Adding and Removing User Accounts” → “Create an Account”. Enter any name, select “Administrator” and click “Create an account”:

4. Reboot the computer and log in as our new user

5. Copy the folder with the profile of our main account. To do this, go to the path: C:\Users and copy the folder with the required user name to our new folder.

6. Next, go to the properties of both folders and go to the “Security” tab. Here we need to create in the folder on drive D all the same user groups as in the folder on drive C, and also give them the same access rights.

As you can see, you need to delete the “Authenticated” and “Users” groups, you also need to add the user Skesov.ru and the “HomeUsers” group.

In order to add or remove a user or group, you must click the “Edit” button. In the window that opens, select a user or group and click the “Delete” button or simply click the “Add” button to add a new group.

A window for selecting users and groups will open:

Click the “Advanced” button and in the new window on the right, the “Search” button:

Select the desired group and click OK until only the “Group Permissions” window remains.

As a result, you should get a full copy of the rights of the child folder:

If everything matches, press the OK button to apply the change and move on to the next step.

7. When trying to remove/add a user, the system may show the following window:

We need to get around this, so we need to disable inheritance of rights for this folder. To do this, in the folder properties in the “Security” section, click the “Advanced” button:

In this window, click the “Change permissions” button and uncheck the “Add permissions inherited from parent objects” checkbox:

Click OK and answer the question Windows security We answer “Delete” (although you can also “Add” - this will simply save the current groups and users, but will also allow you to change them):

Also click the OK button in the additional security settings window.

8. Open the registry. To do this, press the Win+R key combination and in the “Run” window that opens, write regedit and click OK. (You can also search the Start menu in Windows 7 or Vista by typing regedit)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

We are interested in groups of the format S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxxx-xxx... select them one by one and look at the value of the ProfileImagePath parameter. The path should lead to the folder for the profile that we need to transfer. In my case it's this one:

All that remains is to restart the system and log in with your main account. After a successful download, the folder on drive C can be deleted.

For some reason, Microsoft has abandoned the ability to transfer profiles for client versions of its operating systems, starting with Windows Vista. I don’t know what this is connected with, but when you go to the “User Profiles” menu, you will see that the profile copy button is disabled.

But like many other restrictions imposed by Microsoft, this can also be bypassed, do everything according to the instructions and you will succeed ;)

This article is suitable for Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1. So, in order:

1) Log in under your administrator account.

2) Create a new folder to store your accounts; in my case it will look like this:

3) Next, you need to create a new user with administrator rights. To do this, go to “Control Panel” → “User Accounts” → “Adding and Removing User Accounts” → “Create an Account”. Enter any name, select “Administrator” and click “Create an account”:

4. Reboot the computer and log in as our new user:

5. Copy the folder with the profile of our main account. To do this, go to the path: C:\Users and copy the folder with the required user name to our new folder.

6. Next, go to the properties of both folders and go to the “Security” tab. Here we need to create in the folder on drive D all the same user groups as in the folder on drive C, and also give them the same access rights.

As you can see, you need to delete the “Authenticated” and “Users” groups, you also need to add the site user and the “HomeUsers” group.

In order to add or remove a user or group, you must click the “Edit” button. In the window that opens, select a user or group and click the “Delete” button or simply click the “Add” button to add a new group.

A window for selecting users and groups will open:

Click the “Advanced” button and in the new window on the right, the “Search” button:

Select the desired group and click OK until only the “Group Permissions” window remains.

As a result, you should get a full copy of the rights of the child folder:

If everything matches, press the OK button to apply the change and move on to the next step.

7. When trying to remove/add a user, the system may show the following window:

We need to get around this, so we need to disable inheritance of rights for this folder. To do this, in the folder properties in the “Security” section, click the “Advanced” button:

In this window, click the “Change permissions” button and uncheck the “Add permissions inherited from parent objects” checkbox:

Click OK and answer the Windows security question “Delete” (although you can also “Add” - this will simply save the current groups and users, but will also allow you to change them):

Also click the OK button in the additional security settings window.

8. Open the registry. To do this, press the key combination Win + R and in the “Run” window that opens, write regedit and click OK. (You can also search the Start menu in Windows 7 or Vista by typing regedit)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

And we see several groups of records in this section:

We are interested in groups of the format S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxxx-xxx... select them one by one and look at the value of the ProfileImagePath parameter. The path should lead to the folder for the profile that we need to transfer. In my case it's this one:

Next we need to change the ProfileImagePath value to the path to the new folder. To do this, right-click on the parameter and select “Change”. I write my way, and this is what I got:

10. To be safe, let’s create a symbolic link to the old location; this will solve many problems, especially if some program decides to ignore the new location. To do this, delete the old user folder and open the command line and write the following there:

mklink /J “C:\Users\*user*” “D:\Users\*user*”

Where instead *user* you need to write the name of your folder. For example, " C:\Users\Vladimir"

All that remains is to restart the system and log in with your main account.

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Moving user profiles to another drive and changing the path to them is a very difficult task. However, it is quite doable, and in several different ways. Once the migration is successfully completed, the old profile folders can be deleted without any problems.

Let's say you need to transfer a profile from drive C: to drive D:. It doesn't make sense to just copy the profile files because it won't work.

The simplest and affordable way– use the Transfer Tool windows data(windows Easy Transfer). This way you can transfer absolutely the entire profile, including the AppData folder and various system links associated with the profile.

First of all, you need to log into the account that we will transfer. Then open the Transfer Tool. To do this, click on the Start button and go to All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Windows Easy Transfer.

Windows Easy Transfer will launch, in which, in fact, you just need to select the location where the user data will be saved. It is best to transfer them to an external hard drive or a USB flash drive, although no one bothers you to choose network drive.

As a result, we will get a file with a .MIG extension in which precious data will be stored.

1. Log in with an Administrator account and delete the old profile and all its files (if you’re scared, you can first save them in a safe place).

2. Open the editor system registry(Start > regedit).

3. Go to the system registry branch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.

4. Find the ProfilesDirectory value and specify the address of the new folder for it - say, D:\Users.

5. Reboot.

6. Log in with an Administrator account.

7. Create a new user account (see “Accounts”) windows records 7“). Name it the same as the deleted account - however, this is just for convenience.

8. Log out and log in with the new account you just created. Now the profile folder will be created where we specified earlier for the ProfilesDirectory value.

9. All that remains is to find the previously created .MIG file and double-click on it. The wizard will transfer all user information to the new profile. If the name of the new account does not match the old one, then in the Transfer Wizard, in additional parameters, you just need to specify a new name.

This method applies to migrating a profile on a long-established system. However, sometimes it makes sense to do this immediately after installing Windows 7.

Choosing a user profile location when installing Windows 7

If you are reinstalling or installing Windows 7 from scratch, then it is convenient to immediately select a new location for the future user profile at the installation stage.

After the main steps of installing Windows 7, we will stop at the window where you need to create a new user in the system. Take your time to specify it and click to open a command prompt window.

Now let's move the profile to a new location. In our example, we move the C:\Users folder to the E:\Users folder, as well as the ProgramFiles and ProgramData folders.

1. Copy the profiles, Program Files and ProgramData folder to a new location.

Robocopy "C:\Users" "E:\Users" /E /COPYALL /XJ robocopy "C:\Program Files" "E:\Program Files" /E /COPYALL /XJ robocopy "C:\ProgramData" "E: \ProgramData" /E /COPYALL /XJ

2. Delete old folders and create the necessary connections between folders.

Program Files folder:

Rmdir "C:\Program Files" /S /Q mklink /J "C:\Program Files" "E:\Program Files"

Rmdir "C:\users" /S /Q mklink /J "C:\users" "E:\users"

ProgramData folder:

Rmdir "C:\ProgramData" /S /Q mklink /J "C:\ProgramData "E:\ProgramData"

It is likely that you will receive an error message when deleting folders with the rmdir command. You can delete these folders later, after a reboot.

Now type regedit to open the Registry Editor.

Go to the next thread:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion

Change the path to the ProgramFilesDir and CommonFilesDir folders by entering the E:\ drive instead of the C:\ drive.

Now go to the list of user profiles and change the paths again to E:\ instead of C:\.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Close the system registry editor. Now enter the following command:

Shutdown /r /t 0

The computer will be turned off, turn it on again. The user creation stage will appear again, create it and this will complete the installation of Windows 7 and the transfer of profiles.

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Moving the “Downloads”, “My Documents”, “Desktop” and other user folders to another drive in Windows 7/8/8.1/10

When creating a new user in Windows, the system allocates to him special folders for saving various data: documents, images, music, videos, etc.; creating folders of the same name for this. By default, they are all stored in the user's folder on the disk with installed system, most often this is drive C. Most users store all their files in these standard folders.

But different situations happen, and at some point the operating system may crash and stop loading, the only way out will be complete reinstallation windows. Accordingly, all user files that were stored in the Downloads, Documents, Music, Videos, Images folders will be deleted without a trace. To prevent this and in the future not to think that your photos, documents and music collection may be lost, you need to move the standard user folders to another drive.

How to move standard user folders in Windows to another drive

You can move folders either to another disk partition, if it has several partitions, or to another physical disk: internal or USB. For example, when windows is installed on SSD drive, and a regular HDD is used for data.

Step 1 Go to the user folder, it is located at:

C:\Users\Username

Step 2 Select the folder you want to transfer, right-click on it and context menu select Properties

Step 3 In the window that appears, go to the Location tab. Click the Move button and specify the path where you want to move this folder. You can move either to an existing folder or create a new one

Step 4 Click the Apply button for the changes to take effect

Step 5 In the dialog box that appears, confirm the move by clicking Yes

Perform similar operations for other user directories.

Now your folders will no longer be stored on the system drive, and after the next reinstalling windows all data will be intact. You will only need to re-specify the path to the data folders on another drive.

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Transferring the user profiles folder (Users) to Windows 7 OS. Part 1: At the installation stage

This is not my article, but I think it is very useful, so I am posting a corrected and expanded copy. The task of transferring a user profile folder from a system drive to another logical or physical drive in a Windows operating system is very urgent for a number of reasons:

• The need to separate operational information (system) and archival data (user data) due, for example, to the need for storage system files on a high-speed but less reliable RAID0 disk array.
• There is no need for additional information transfer when reinstalling the OS.
• Compared to transferring an individual user profile, transferring the Users folder is more preferable, since the profiles of all subsequent users of the computer will also be saved in the right place, and there will be no need to go through the transfer procedure again.

One of the most elegant and efficient methods for carrying out such a transfer is the ability to determine the location of the user profiles folder during the system installation stage. Microsoft provides us with this opportunity for Windows 7 OS called Audit Mode. You can read more about this mode in the next article.

Now about the actual scenario for transferring the Users folder:

As a bonus, you can also take advantage of the so-called junction points to prevent errors associated with explicitly specifying the previous paths of user profile folders. To do this, use the mklink utility to create two symbolic links (execute with administrator rights): mklink /J C:\Users D:\Users mklink /J C:\ProgramData D:\ProgramData Thus, now even when accessing the previous paths, any program will not notice substitution and will work with folders on the C drive, although in fact they will be located in the location you configured. For the compatibility of some applications with Windows XP, I recommend making the following symbolic link: mklink /J "C:\Documents and Settings" D:\Users If the users folder already existed and you set the same user name when initially setting up the operating system, then another will be created profile folder, and the old one will remain untouched. All files from the old folder should be transferred to the new one manually (it is advisable to boot under a completely different user so that files in the profile folder are not blocked). Therefore, I recommend that after installing Windows and after creating user profiles (for this you need to log in interactively once for each user), create a system image on the C: drive. In the event of a failure, you deploy the system from an image in which user profiles are linked to their folders, and the problem described in the paragraph above will not occur.

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How to transfer folders from a Windows 7 user profile to another drive? - Basic questions about Windows 7

The situation is as follows: There is a laptop with installed windows 7 Home Premium. Disk c: is running out of space, only 600 MB left. The user saves all photos and music to his user folder. So here's the question: How can I transfer user folders to another drive? I'm trying to right-click on the user's folder on the desktop, but there are no properties there and there's no way to move the folder anywhere. Maybe someone has already encountered this issue?

It is not possible to transfer the entire user folder at once. Do this: 1) Create a new folder on another drive. 2) Open the user’s folder from the desktop. 3) Right-click on each folder (Images, Videos, etc.) and select “Properties” 4) In Properties Select "Location" tab 5) In the "Location" tab, click the "Move" button and indicate the newly created folder on another disk.6) And we do this with each folder that we need to move 7) That's it, now physically all moved folders will live on another drive, and they will also be accessible from the desktop. In general, these movements will be invisible to the user.

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How to move user folders to another local drive in Windows?

IN operating system Windows (in all its versions) has a so-called user folder, which contains folders for storing the desktop, videos, documents, for downloading files from the Internet, for music, images, and others that are used less frequently. Since the folders are initially located on the system drive “C”, over time this drive may become full. And if you bought yourself a small SSD disk, then most likely there will not be enough space for the files stored in the user’s folders. In this case, the location of these folders must be moved to another local disk, for example, “D” and I will talk about this in this article.

Now in more detail... These user folders are primarily created for the convenience of the user, because they allow you to conveniently sort your information on the computer through the explorer, for example, put videos, films, etc. in the “Video” folder, photos, pictures - in the “Images” folder, Well, what you place on the desktop is automatically placed in the “Desktop” folder. Moreover, the appearance of these folders is initially optimized in the system for certain data, videos, photos, music. And you don’t need to create your own folders for everything you have on your computer. In general, whether to use them or not is everyone’s business.

If these folders are actively used for their intended purpose, the information in them will fill up a lot of disk space. As an example, my entire user folder takes up more than 600 GB. What's wrong with that, you ask? Nothing bad, actually, but the problem will arise when there is not enough space on your system disk. At the same time, increasing or decreasing the size of the system disk is a dangerous operation, which can break Windows itself, i.e. it will stop starting.

You can read information about resizing local disks here >>

And some users store most of their information on the desktop, which, accordingly, will also take up space on the C: drive.

It may be news to some that the desktop in Windows is also a folder. Yes, that's right. The folder is called “Desktop” (or Desktop) and it is located in the folder of the system user you are working under, on drive C:

Or another option. Now many people put it under their system SSD drives, instead of the usual hard drives. And these SSDs are a very expensive pleasure, that is, they cost much more than HDDs (hard drives), 2 or even 3 times more expensive. Because they work many times faster and Windows generally works much faster with them. Since these disks are expensive, they are usually bought with such a volume that they are only enough for windows installation and programs for it. This is approximately 120 GB, a size that is enough for most for these purposes. But these 120 GB are no longer enough to store all the information on the computer, especially in the user’s folders, because it is initially located on the same local drive as Windows.

Here, above, I gave 2 examples due to which you may need to change the location of the user folders, especially the Desktop folder and both of these examples are related to the lack of free space on drive "C".

Let's move on to practice...

How to transfer user folders to another local drive.

The user folder itself is standardly located at the following path in Windows: C:\Users\Vladimir

Instead of “Vladimir” you will have your name account in windows.

Sometimes the "Users" folder may be called "Users".

In your user folder you will see something like this:

All of the user's folders are displayed here, such as "Desktop", "Documents", "Downloads", etc. There may also be other folders here, for example, as in the image above, which are not circled in red. Such folders can be created by some programs, i.e. this is normal.

To change the folder location, you need to right-click on the desired folder (hereinafter referred to as “RMB”) and select “Properties”. Go to the “Location” tab (1) and click “Move” (2).

Will open windows explorer, where you need to select the folder to which the current one will be moved. It is better to create a new one for the target folder (to which you are transferring the current one) with the same name, but on a different local drive.

Example. Move the “Downloads” folder from the old location to the new one. The old location in the example is: C:\Users\Vladimir We create a folder with the same name “Downloads” on the 2nd local drive. Accordingly, when moving the old folder, in the “Location” tab we select the new “Downloads” folder that we created.

After selecting a new location, click “Apply” in the window.

If you have any files in your Downloads folder, the system will offer to move them all to the new location that you have chosen. Better files move. To do this, click “Yes” in the window.

We do the same with all other folders that are in your user’s folder. That is, we first create a folder with the same name in another local drive, then transfer the old folder to it.

Of course, you may not directly transfer all the folders, but it’s better to do it anyway, so that you definitely don’t have anything taking up extra space on the “C” drive. And for those who like to store a lot of files directly on the desktop (I do this myself sometimes), I strongly recommend moving the “Desktop” folder! :)

Conclusion

That, in fact, is the whole process of transferring user folders to a new location. As you can see, there is nothing complicated. But if you do it carelessly, for example, by accidentally deleting the source folder or moving it somewhere in the wrong place, then problems may arise. But all this is fixable, i.e. you will definitely not break Windows with these actions :)

Transferring user profile folders from a system drive to another drive is needed to free up a relatively small system drive (for example, an SSD).
The operation is unsafe and controversial - anyone who doesn’t know how and why should not do it.

Additional will be required. xxcopy utility. Required Pro version. Although it is paid, its official trial period of 60 days is quite sufficient for our task.
So:

1. Install xxcopy.
2. We create a new temporary user with a name, for example, “TU”, which will be used to perform the data transfer operation and give him administrator rights.
3. We reboot (to remove locks on used files) and log in under the new user (“TU”).
4. We launch the command Windows string in administrator mode. To copy a folder from drive C: to drive D:, run the command:
   xxcopy c:\Users d:\Users /E /H /K /SC /oE1
   If your drive letters are different, substitute yours. As a result, the folder will be copied properly. You don’t have to pay much attention to errors, if there are any.
5. Next we run the command regedit.In it we find the registry branch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.In this branch we change the values ​​of the keys:
   • Default to "D:\Users\Default"
   • ProfilesDirectory to "D:\Users"
   • Public to "D:\Users\Public"
6. In the same branch there are branches with the parameters of the profiles of users already registered in the system (the branches with long names are what they are) - for each user you need to change the value of the key " ProfileImagePath» to a directory on the portable disk.
7. The temporary user is no longer needed - everything that was required of him is completed. At the same time, nothing irreversible has been done so far - all the data was actually copied and not transferred. Therefore, in the case of “something went wrong...” you can always return the status quo. Now we reboot again and log in under a real administrator account.
8. We make sure that the login occurs correctly and the system boots without any questions. Now you can proceed to further steps.
9. Launch the Windows command line again in administrator mode and run the commands:
   • rd "C:\Documents and Settings"- removing the symbolic link to the old Users folder
   • rd "C:\Users" /S- deleting the oldest Users folder
   • mklink /D "C:\Documents and Settings" "D:\Users"
   • mklink /D "C:\Users" "D:\Users"

Now on your system the user profile folder Users is located at the desired disk and, in addition, there are symbolic links to the new folder, which protect the system from incorrect access to the old address.