User Profiles - Create and Move During Windows 7 Installation

micks88 said:

Just to let you know Kari, Ive got the system up and running now. Sysprep worked straight away once I changed the drives like you said.
Thanks for all your help and excellent tutorial.
I will be reading more on here and see what else I can learn.
Regards
Michael

Thanks for telling that, always good to know the good news, too :)

padela said:

Hello everyone , this is my first post on 7 forum . I apologize for my bad English .
Kari , I followed your excellent tutorial and everything works , thanks for your work ! Now I want to create a backup to restore everything if disaster happens . I read the whole topic , but it's very long and my Aapproximate English does not help me . Can you please illustrate e the procedure to back up and how to use it in case of need? I would be really grateful ! Greetings from Italy

Ciao Padela. Devo dire ti amo il vostro paese. Ho vissuto più di 10 anni a Roma, a due fermate con il tram numero 2 da Piazza del Popolo, e le estati a Fosdinovo nei pressi di Carrara, Toscana :)

The best practice is to do a system image containing all partitions on both the Windows system disk, and the disk where you have relocated the Users folder. You can use any third party imaging tool, or create the system image with built-in Windows Backup tool.

Tutorials:

1. Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup
2. Imaging with free Macrium

Kari

Thank you Kari. I was moving Users folder on a much harder way.
- I recently installed Win 7 on a new computer relocating Users folder to D: using your tutorial.
When I tried to install Autocad it gave me an error. It couldn't find C:\Users\Public\Documents (that is now on D:). So I launched Regedit and searched for C:\Users and fond two places that where using C:\Users\ (I don't remember where). I edited and changed to D:\Users and then I could install Autocad. So I recommend every one to do the same search and replace.
- As many people are adding a SSD as main disk (for speed) cloning their HDD, I ask you: Can C:\Users be relocated on a working Win 7 the same way you describe on User Profiles - Relocate to another Partition or Disk, using the same XML-script used for relocating Win 7 during installation?

Megahertz07 said:

I ask you: Can C:\Users be relocated on a working Win 7 the same way you describe on User Profiles - Relocate to another Partition or Disk, using the same XML-script used for relocating Win 7 during installation?

Yes. The process is explained quite detailed in a tutorial on our sister site the Ten Forums: Users Folder - Move Location in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

Browse to part Method Two: Relocating Users folder on an existing Windows installation in that tutorial. Although the tutorial, video and screenshots are for Windows 10 the process itself is exactly the same in all Windows versions starting from Vista.

Kari

7of9 said:

Just a quick note. This does not work any longer.
I have tried and tried, verified that everything is correct..

Some type of error at "Line 4 column 5"
FYI

Just a quick note: this works perfectly, as it has always worked. The error is a typo or other user caused issue you have made or caused.

FYI