Re: Off topic - Windows 7 partitioning
Tom Yarrish <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Jay Strauss <[email protected]> wrote: >> 100GB sounds reasonable if it's a single user system and you're >> relatively organized, clean out uninstall occasionally, etc. If you can >> get $65 together (see OT post earlier today about drive deals) I'd go >> 1TB system drive and 1TB data drive and not bother slicing anything up. >> >> Ramin >> -- > > I was the OT poster of drives :) > I seems 1TB and 1TB is easier said than done. The Win7 install doesn't let > one choose which filesystems go upon which partitions or drives. M$ did a > nice thing and broke out /users and put all one's user stuff there. > Unfortunately, there is no good way (from google) to get /users anywhere > but c: > Jay > > -- > Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion > http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni > > There used to be a way (back in XP days) to point My Documents to a different location and it would move the profile directory to that location. I don't know if Win 7 has that feature still in it. If memory serves you just need to right click on My Documents, go to Properties and I believe it lets you specify the location there. Tom -- Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni