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PhilB66:
Yep - I knew about that reg key

Does any one know a way to move the whole user profile to a different partition,

eg. move C:\Documents and Settings\Carol and everything in it (including the user profile files etc)

to D:\
-Carol Haynes (October 02, 2007, 03:12 PM)
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1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/236621 (Windows 2000 & 2003) and an article based on this KB but adapted to work for Windows XP @ http://www.dennislazo.com/movedocumentsandsettings/

2. Another guide... Storing Windows profiles on a different partition

BTW, here's a great portal to search for KB articles

tomos:
Yep - I knew about that reg key

Does any one know a way to move the whole user profile to a different partition-Carol Haynes (October 02, 2007, 03:12 PM)
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1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/236621 (Windows 2000 & 2003) and an article based on this KB but adapted to work for Windows XP @ http://www.dennislazo.com/movedocumentsandsettings/

2. Another guide... Storing Windows profiles on a different partition-PhilB66 (October 02, 2007, 10:55 PM)
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i wonder if it's worth all that...? or is it more a feel good/tidy up thing ??  :)

EDIT: odd, in guide two there it says make new "mover" account,
login & change registry settings (steps 8 to 11)
then it says:
13. Do a cold boot of your computer.
14. Use the "mover" account again.
15. Go through processes 8 until 11.** again !
wonder do they mean go through it again simply to double-check the changes you've made ...

tomos:
with 2GB of ram & for some reason the pagefile wasnt being accessed (I believe that was the problem)
I couldnt go into hibernation with FF + 40tabs open.
dunno did it say "not enough resources" or "not enough virtual resources to .... your API"
apologies about the vagueness of text :-[

but it's sorted now...-tomos (October 02, 2007, 04:05 AM)
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a bit off topic but that wasnt sorted (just pretended to be for a while...)
error was (when going into hibernation):
"Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API"is related to xp sp2 struggling with too much memory (odd reaction though!)

solution is ms hotfix, see page
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095
or
if that doesnt work the more recent comments here may help:
http://www.ntwizards.net/2004/10/13/hibernate

Carol Haynes:
Yep - I knew about that reg key

Does any one know a way to move the whole user profile to a different partition,

eg. move C:\Documents and Settings\Carol and everything in it (including the user profile files etc)

to D:\
-Carol Haynes (October 02, 2007, 03:12 PM)
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1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/236621 (Windows 2000 & 2003) and an article based on this KB but adapted to work for Windows XP @ http://www.dennislazo.com/movedocumentsandsettings/

2. Another guide... Storing Windows profiles on a different partition

BTW, here's a great portal to search for KB articles
-PhilB66 (October 02, 2007, 10:55 PM)
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Thanks that's really useful.

I tried a number of things a couple of years back but never got profile moved to another partition.

My original plan (though it requires a full reinstall so I can't see me trying it again any time soon) was to set up my system so that Windows is installed to partition C: but so that each of the following are on their own individual partitions (* on separate hard disks):

*Pagefil.sys
*Temp folder (including browser caches etc)
*Software scratch folders
\Program Files
\Documents and settings (including My Documents etc. for each user)

This would separate out all the clutter and allow for a small lean "System" partition with all the sprawl neatly contained in its own places which are easy to defrag and backup.

nosh:
Stay away from Partition Tragic. Use Acronis Disk Director instead.
-sri (September 30, 2007, 10:49 AM)
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I really wouldn't recommend trusting any Acronis product for managing partitions. I had a big catastrophe today when I tried to use the Acronis HDD boot function (the one that offers to show a True Image screen on boot so you can run recovery right off the HDD).

It tried to create a partition, failed and abruptly exited. When I logged on to Windows all the partitions seemed to be in place but Windows prompted me to reboot coz "changes had been made". After reboot compmgmt showed me that a small partition (unlettered/ unused space) had indeed been created. A peep via partition magic showed the whole disk merged into one "bad" partition! I tried to allocate the unused space back via compmgmt and boom! it exits with an error and the free space has been merged with two of my logical data drives, making them both unusable. I know people don't think very much of PMagic but it was the only app that recognised that things had been badly fxxxed up.

I managed to get everything back, thanks to most of it being mirrored daily on another HDD and a gem of a utility called 'Find and Mount', free for home use. It lived up to its name and found both lost partitions and the chunk of unallocated space. It let me mount both partitions to their respective drive letters and I'm moving data to my other HDD as I type this. The free version lets you read data off the mounted drives at 512 KB/s, it'll take me half a day yet to get everything out of there but I'm not complaining, this thing saved my ass.

Partition Find and Mount - highly recommended! Acronis for partitioning, NOT!

One thing I'd like to add is, whatever tool you're using for partitioning, if it's not screwing up, stick to it! Managing partitions via multiple apps really seems like a bad idea.

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