D: disk within users folder. Help?


  1. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    D: disk within users folder. Help?


    Hi, I moved my users folder to my secondary drive, but now the disk shows within the users folder. I know it doesn't affect performance-wise, ut I'd like to avoid possible directory issues.
    Thanks!
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  2. Posts : 2,774
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
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    Exactly how was the Users folder moved? Reason for asking: the answer will probably help others who have been there/done that successfully to give you their answer as to the disk-within-folder situation. I want to learn more about this.
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  3. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    RolandJS said:
    Exactly how was the Users folder moved? Reason for asking: the answer will probably help others who have been there/done that successfully to give you their answer as to the disk-within-folder situation. I want to learn more about this.
    Right-click -> Location -> move to
    This was done with all user folders. However, the issue appeared after I moved the Desktop Folder to D:
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  4. Posts : 7,351
    Windows 7 HP 64
       #4

    I still don't understand what you did.
    Please make an image of your disks tree like this one:https://www.sevenforums.com/attachmen...-a-my_tree.jpg
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  5. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Megahertz07 said:
    I still don't understand what you did.
    Please make an image of your disks tree like this one:https://www.sevenforums.com/attachmen...-a-my_tree.jpg
    Ok, here it goes
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  6. Posts : 7,351
    Windows 7 HP 64
       #6

    You didn't move the Users folder to D:
    As you can see it is still on C:\Users (ou C:\Usuarios)
    What you did was to change the link from your library from C: to some place in D:
    As you can see, my folder tree shows D:\users
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  7. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Megahertz07 said:
    You didn't move the Users folder to D:
    As you can see it is still on C:\Users (ou C:\Usuarios)
    What you did was to change the link from your library from C: to some place in D:
    As you can see, my folder tree shows D:\users
    So if I move (cut/paste) the C:/user folder into D: , it'll solve the driver location issue?
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  8. Posts : 7,351
    Windows 7 HP 64
       #8

    No, it isn't so simple. As \Users is part of the OS, it can't be moved that way. You must use Sysprep.
    This tutorial also work in win 7 User Profiles - Relocate to another Partition or Disk
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  9. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Megahertz07 said:
    No, it isn't so simple. As \Users is part of the OS, it can't be moved that way. You must use Sysprep.
    This tutorial also work in win 7 User Profiles - Relocate to another Partition or Disk
    Thank you, I actually ended up just doing a clean Windows install. It's taking forever with all the updates, drivers and programs, but I hope it gets all neat this time.
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