Is There Some Easy Method For Swapping Drive Designations?

In addition to my post above:

I was editing my post when you jumped in.
My mistake. They could use your tutorial instead of Brink's tutorial that I linked to.
Does your approach have an impact of imaging C - eg. if program data is moved to D?

In any event if C & D are partitions on a spinner I would increase the size of the C partition.

mjf said:

Does your approach have an impact of imaging C

It has only a positive impact on imaging due the fact that as the main profile folder Users (again repeating this: with absolutely everything stored in any user profile) and maybe the ProgramData too are located outside C:, the system images can be kept smaller because user data is not included in image. For instance Macrium I am using for imaging can be set to only image C: even when one system folder, Users in this case is located on E:.

When the image is then restored, it of course automatically finds the user data on E: (in my case) or any other drive because the registry was included in the image. Less to image, less to restore.

The sysprep method changes the value of respective environment variables so the system is all the time informed about the current location of any user folders or data. For instance if I type to File Explorer's address field the variable for current user's profile folder (%userprofile%) and hit Enter, my system takes me to E:\Users\Kari.

An added bonus, especially when the Users is not only on separate partition on the system disk but totally on another disk is the security: your OS might crash, HD die but your user data remains intact; simply replace the dead disk and restore your small system image and you are ready to go again, user data picked up from another disk.

Ok the OP has a number of options to resolve the issue.

boweasel said:

I actually don't know why I'd want to move any data to D. All that really has to be done is to take about 500 GB from D and move it to C. Then she can continue to use the now much bigger C drive as she did before.

There are many benefits in keeping the system drive smaller and user data on separate drive. One of the clearest advantages is that it helps keeping system images smaller.

However, the dialog between mjf and me above about if the sysprep method could in this case be used or not needs to be separated from your original post and issue and answers you got. It was simply a typical "This cannot be used - Yes it can" discussion which went a bit off topic.

In my first post in this thread I only mentioned the sysprep method as an response to another member asking if such a tool exist which would easily move the user data to another drive. But, as soon as I had told about that I also told that in this case I agree with the recommendation to simply increase the size of the C: drive.

move the "my documents folder (Path) to a location on "D"

create a folder on "D" call it my docs or what ever you want.
go to c:\my documents right click on my documents click properties/ click location /click move and direct the move to D"\mydocs all future save of files will go to d:\mydocs

change the downloads folder in the firefox web browser to D:\downloads (create the folder first)
all other downloads direct to the folder on "D"

60gig is ok for system and programs installed .when done defrag the drive don't defrag ssd drive if is installed, not needed.

remember to delete Temp folder items on a daily basis