Guest Cesar Guerra Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Hi there How can I change the Documents and Settings folders to other disk? so when I need to reinstall XP the process wouldn't be that traumatic to restore user's stuff best regards, TIA Cesar Guerra
Guest Rocky Posted June 28, 2008 Posted June 28, 2008 Re: change Documents and Settings folder It depends how big the folder is. If it doesn't have a lot of files, you could try burning the folder to one or two DVD's (set up to record data). If you have a large number of files then probably the best way is to purchase a new hard drive, install it and make it master and leave your old drive in the case making it slave. Once you've installed XP on the new drive, transfer the old drive files to the 'Documents and files' folder. You can only transfer your documents, photos, videos, music and email folders. Other settings files will need to be re-written because the registry will not be updated during transfer. Hope this helps. "Cesar Guerra" <cesar_gl@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ec8QFbS2IHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi there > > How can I change the Documents and Settings folders to other disk? > so when I need to reinstall XP the process wouldn't be that traumatic to > restore user's stuff > > best regards, > TIA > Cesar Guerra >
Guest Ramesh, MS-MVP Posted June 30, 2008 Posted June 30, 2008 Re: change Documents and Settings folder http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843 -- Regards, Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User] The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com "Cesar Guerra" <cesar_gl@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ec8QFbS2IHA.4492@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi there > > How can I change the Documents and Settings folders to other disk? > so when I need to reinstall XP the process wouldn't be that traumatic to > restore user's stuff > > best regards, > TIA > Cesar Guerra >
Guest mdlister Posted June 30, 2008 Posted June 30, 2008 Re: change Documents and Settings folder Are you using a network and a domain or is this just for a single computer? It can easily be done with folder redirection using Group Policy if you have a network -- mdlister
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