For those of you who have SSDs, limited space, or just want to keep your user data on another drive or partition, I wanted to share the results of some experimentation as a followup to my own question on this subject.
I know that there is another method of relocating the User Profiles to...
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So, I got a new, larger SSD to put windows on.
I did a custom install. During the installation
I pressed shif-F10 to open cmd
then used
robocopy /copyall /mir /E /XJ C:\Users D:\Users
rmdir /S /Q C:\Users
mklink /J C:\Users D:\Users
I did the same with Program Files, Program Files (x86)...
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Hi everyone,
I currently have a problem with what appears to be recurring folders.
I have the main folder which then shows a folder inside that, then another inside that, then another inside that until I come to about 7-8 folders. opening any of these and the you end up opening one folder...
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Hi everyone,
I currently have a problem with what appears to be recurring folders.
I have the main folder which then shows a folder inside that, then another inside that, then another inside that until I come to about 7-8 folders. opening any of these and the you end up opening one folder...
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Hi!
It seems I've gotten myself into quite the mess here.
I am trying to relocate my Users folder into another HDD to save space on my OS HDD by using this guide: Move the Users Directory in Windows 7
I am currently inside cmd on the Win7 Ultimate Edition(x64) DVD and have executed the...
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I'm using Robocopy with Windows 7 Home Premium SP1. The logfile it produces shows all the skipped files, even though I'm not using the /V switch (verbose). Here's the start of the latest log, starting with the options line. Sorry about the formatting; I can't figure out how to retain...
I just installed a new 64 gig SSD in my computer. I also have a 2T secondary hard drive.
The SSD is not big enough to contain all the stuff that will eventually be in "My documents",
i.e. under "users" so I need to move the users directory to my secondary hard drive but have
windows behave as it...
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I am using robocopy in windows 7 to upgrade users computers.
I have it setup to pull users personal documents and such of the old laptop to the new win7 laptop. I do this through the network by setting the old laptops c drive as a network drive z.
i use this for robocopy to...
Greg Shultz shows you how to take advantage of Robocopy's multi-threaded copy feature to create an exact mirrored duplicate of your user profile folder.
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Hello Fellow 7 users,
I have just switched OS to Windows 7, and i am impressed so far.
I want to backup my data on an external harddrive. I would like to use the function ROBOCOPY in the command windows because then i don't have to third party program running all the time. But the copying...