Re: Moving all user files to separate partition under windows

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.
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> 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.
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> I think I have all the ACLs set properly.  Not sure what the exact point of
> failure is...
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> Mark, Herb, anyone -- have this working ok on Win7?

No, but I intend to try this
(http://serverfault.com/questions/8187/whats-the-best-way-to-move-c-users-to-d-users-under-vista-w7)
as soon as I get 10 minutes to bang together (or several hours,
realistically).

I do have a concern about mounting a partition at c:\users if only for
the oddball case where the real "c:" drive is a solid state drive, and
the other partition is from a traditional HDD. Given that Windows 7 is
supposed to treat SSDs differently, is it clever enough to discover
that the "users" directory is not actually hosted on the SSD? It's not
a problem for me yet, but I'm seriously thinking about buying a 64GB
SSD for the boot disk of the next new install, which is in large part
why I want "users" off this drive altogether.

Herb.