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You're refering to User Profiles - Create and Move During Windows 7 Installation ? "During installation" it saysWrong. As the procedure can be reversed, it can also be redone.
The sysprep method for instance can be used without issues whenever user wants to. I've done it on systems a couple years old. Again, my recommendation is to set up a test rig and test yourself. Really. Test it and try to make it fail. I give you the same promise than I gave to Greg, I will not say afterwards "What did I tell you!".
What happens when you run Sysprep with an unattended answer file to relocate the main profile folder on an existing Windows 7 installation:
Kari
- The folder Users will be moved to another drive, completely with every existing user profile and everything they contain
- All future user profiles will automatically be created in the new location
- An OOBE first run boot is run, it's this phase where Windows checks the system and sets new environmental variables
- All profile related environment variables get new values, for instance when the procedure is done and user has relocated the Users folder on X: and types various profile related environment variables to Explorer addressbar followed by Enter, he is taken to:
- %temp% > takes user to X:\Users\ProfileName\AppData\Local\Temp
- %userprofile% > takes user to X:\Users\ProfileName
- %localappdata% > takes user to X:\User\ProfileName\AppData\Local
- ... and so on