Re: Off topic - Windows 7 partitioning

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:32 AM, John Bundy <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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:
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> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/6f6a14a7-bc47-494c-8d12-3328a9a11285
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> Hi,
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> 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:
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> %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Documents
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> %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Music
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> %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Pictures
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> %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Videos
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> You can find your user files in the above folders and move them to the
> drive you like.
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> For more information, please refer to
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> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930128
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> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930890
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> It applies to Windows 7.
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> Hope it helps.
> Vivian Xing - MSFT
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> ___________________________________________________________
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> Also, do you think you might want a Linux partition?  This might be a good
> time to do that.
>
> John



I googled that one too, and read it and the whole thing idea (the more I
read) seems to be problematic with backups or reinstalls.  I think win7 just
wants stuff in c:\

Jay

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