Re: Off topic - Windows 7 partitioning
John Bundy <[email protected]>
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It looks like MS changed directory structure in Windows 7. They use an NTFS feature junction points, like symlinks, to allow pointing user data elsewhere per: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/6f6a14a7-bc47-494c-8d12-3328a9a11285 Hi, In Windows Vista and Windows 7, the “My Documents and Settings“, has been replaced by "Users". The My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos folders in Windows XP are transferred to the following folders in Windows 7: %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Documents %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Music %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Pictures %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Videos You can find your user files in the above folders and move them to the drive you like. For more information, please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930128 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930890 It applies to Windows 7. Hope it helps. Vivian Xing - MSFT ___________________________________________________________ Also, do you think you might want a Linux partition? This might be a good time to do that. John 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 > > -- Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni