Re: Moving all user files to separate partition under windows

Interesting, by the time I got your emails with the various suggestions I
already had a lot of stuff installed and didn't want to do another reinstall
using the clever install tricks that got users set up correctly on another
partition. So instead I followed the instructions on neowin (
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=731030) - which had me go to
the Disk Management console. This allowed me to mount the partition under
C:/users/mark - so I've not run into the ACL problem yet but I don't run
IE8. Perhaps related - I can't get IE8 to save downloads, since I use
firefox as my browser that isn't an issue.

Cheers
Mark

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Shawn A. Van Ness <[email protected]>wrote:

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> Hmm...  not sure if this can be made to work, after all.
>
> It seems to work ok at first -- but processes that run low-integrity (such
> as IE8 viewing Internet Zone content, and sidebar gadgets, etc) have
> problems.
>
> I think I have all the ACLs set properly.  Not sure what the exact point of
> failure is...
>
> Mark, Herb, anyone -- have this working ok on Win7?
>
> -S
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Shawn A. Van Ness <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> Yeah there is an UnAttend.xml file, with some entries you can tweak to
>> specify an alternative location for C:\Users.
>>
>> I remember at some point (Vista?) that this caused problems with
>> build-to-build upgrades...  not sure if we fixed that for Win7.
>> Binging around a bit, this seems to be a good walkthrough of the mklink /j
>> approach:
>>
>> http://serverfault.com/questions/8187/whats-the-best-way-to-move-c-users-to-d-users-under-vista-w7
>>
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>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Herb Warren <[email protected]>wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, tenveer<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > i think this is what u want
>>> > http://hubpages.com/hub/Windows-7_-_Moving_My_Documents
>>>
>>> After reading this - and I do like Shawn's suggestion - what I think I
>>> really want is an installer for Windows7 that does the right thing to
>>> begin with. Has the procedure for making an unattended install script
>>> changed (much) since XP? I vaguely recall making on for XP, but for
>>> the life of me I can't find my notes or the script....
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Herb.
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> Yahoo! Groups Links
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