Relocating your user account to another drive

It is possible to relocate a whole account to a different drive but will cause complications once you format/replace your main OS as Windows security will tend to lock it up even if you're using the exact credentials.

The most recommended way of accomplishing this task is to just relocate main folders to a different drive/partition. You can do this to the following folders;
Contacts
Desktop
Downloads
Favorites
Links
My Documents
My Music
My Pictures
My Videos
Saved Games
Searches

To move these folders to a different location, just right-click>properties>location and choose a location

After completing these steps, your files are covered and is not affected by any problems your OS might encounter.

Note: To avoid windows making duplicates of relocated folders, in Folder Options (in Control Panel), enable "Show hidden files and folders". Now when you're asked to replace files and folders, select to copy and replace all. If a single file is left, expect a duplicate. You can safely remove the duplicate folders after a restart by renaming it first then delete it. Others might be able to delete this straight off.

Let me know how this turns out for yah or if you need further information

Would definitely be nice if I could just move the whole 'username' folder to another drive. Sending feedback.

Gary

swarfega said:

Thanks, after several tries I managed to get it working, its a fidly process.

Yes, its really a bit fiddly but after you're done, you can safely mess up your system without doing harm to your files No headaches :)

I personally do this and have all my files located on different partitions as a rule.

Going to give this a try as it is exactly what I want.

Gary