Unlike a full reinstall of Windows followed by a reinstall software, restoring the user's personal settings is much more tedious. You need to return the old wallpaper, sort out personal folders in the library, and most importantly, restore a lot of different settings associated with the user account. In a word, one hassle and nothing more.
In such a situation, a small, uncomplicated, but very useful utility called Transwiz can help out a lot. It is intended for backing up and transferring profile data to another computer or the same computer under Windows control 7, 8.1 and 10 after a complete reinstallation of the system.
Transwiz differs from analogues in simplicity and ease of use - the procedure for copying and transferring is carried out using a step-by-step wizard. There is no Russian language in the program, but this should not become a hindrance. Once a profile archive has been created, its contents can be viewed in ZIP archiver or Explorer, and if necessary, extract the necessary files from it.
Some features of using Transwiz
You can only back up data from one account from another, but if your PC has only one main profile, you willy-nilly have to create a second one or activate the built-in administrator account and make backups from under it. This is especially true for the transfer of the local administrator profile, which will be considered used by Transwiz, even if you run the program from under account ordinary user.
Note
We remind you that you can activate the hidden Administrator account with the command net user Administrator /active:yes executed in an elevated CMD console.
How to work with Transwiz
When you run the utility, the wizard will ask you two questions: “I want to transfer data to another computer” and “I have data I want to transfer to this computer”, that is, are you going to transfer data to another PC or to the same one. Select the first one and click Next.
In the window that opens, select the desired profile, click "Next" and specify the directory to save the backup copy of the profile.
You can enable compression at this point (optional).
When proceeding to the next step, the utility will offer to set a password for the archive with a copy of the data, here we also leave everything at your discretion.
After that, the procedure will start Reserve copy, the progress of which you can see at the bottom of the application window.
The created ZIP archive includes library folders (Music, Documents, Favorites, Videos, etc.), desktop configuration, OneDrive folder, logs, databases, as well as a hidden AppData directory with software settings.
Approximately the same, but in the reverse order, the procedure for restoring the profile on new system. Having launched the program, this time select the option “I have data I want to transfer to this computer” and specify the path to the data archive.
We do not change the computer name (Enter the domian), click "Next".
Transwiz will display a message that this account does not exist and prompts you to create it. Click "Yes" and select the type of account you want, for example, Administrator.
In the next window, you can specify new user data, or leave everything by default. In the latter case, the data will be taken from the backup.
Almost everything is ready, it remains only to click "Next" and wait for the backup copy with user data to be unpacked. Upon completion of the procedure, close the current session and log in with a new old account.
If you did not specify a username and password in the Transwiz window, when you enter the restored account, the system may prompt you to change the password. You need to enter it only in the two lower fields, leave the first upper one blank.
In any case, you can reset or change the password from a work account by opening a command prompt with administrator rights and running the command net user user password, where user is the name of the local user, and password is New Password. Better yet, first enter your old local login and password in the program window and tick the “Password never expires” checkbox.
Note
You can transfer data to Transwiz not only between Windows of the same version, you can import a profile from Windows 10 to Windows 8.1 and even 7, and vice versa, only in this case full compatibility of components and settings is not guaranteed. As for universal applications, they will need to be updated when you sign in to the migrated account.
Have a great day!
In order to transfer user data and settings from one computer to another, you can use various paid programs, but why, if there is a built-in solution Windows-Tool data transfer (Windows Easy Transfer). It is worth noting right away that this tool is already built into Windows7 and Windows8, for Windows XP and Windows Vista, it must be installed in order to transfer files and settings to Winsdows 7 here link to distribution . The installation procedure is very simple and comes down to a few clicks of the button next and acceptance license agreement. This tool must be installed on both the computer from which the profile is copied and to which the profile is copied.
With Windows Easy Transfer, you can transfer your profile regardless of Windows versions(Home Basic, Professional...), but there are limitations:
Windows Easy Transfer does not move files from 64-bit Windows to 32-bit Windows.
Transfer Tool Windows doesn't move programs, only user settings and files.
In order to run the Data Transfer Tool (Windows Easy Transfer) you need to:
In Windows XP, Windows Vista, after installation, go to "Start" - "All Programs" - "Windows 7 Easy Transfer";
Login to Windows 7 "Start" - "All Programs" - "Accessories" - "Utilities" - "Windows Easy Transfer";
In Windows 8, in the search bar type Data Transfer Tool.
The Windows Easy Transfer window opens. Press " Further".
After that, a window for choosing a method for transferring a profile will open.
Easy Transfer Cable. This is a special cable with USB connectors, which can be purchased from vendors. hardware. One end of the cable connects to the source computer, the other end to the destination computer. Both computers must be on during the migration and must be running Windows Easy Transfer. With this method, you can only transfer side-by-side data.
Net. To perform a network transfer, you need two computers that are running Windows Easy Transfer and connected to the same network. Both computers must be turned on during data transfer. In this way, only side-by-side data transfer can be performed. When transferring data over a network, a password is set on the source computer, which then must be entered on the destination computer.
external drive or USB device flash memory. It is possible to connect an external hard drive or USB flash drive, you can also use an internal hard drive or shared folder online. In this way, both side-by-side and wipe-and-restore migrations can be performed. Your data is protected by entering a password on the source computer, which must then be entered before importing the data on the destination computer.
In this example, I will be using a USB flash drive, so I choose- External HDD or USB flash drive.
After that, select the account whose profile you want to move. If you press " Setting" you can add or remove files and folders to transfer to another computer.
Then you need to enter a password to protect the profile.
The next step is to choose where we will save the profile, in this case it will be a USB flash drive. Please note that the USB flash drive must be larger than the user profile.
After that, the process of saving files will begin. It can take several minutes, it all depends on the volume of the profile.
After that, an information window will open, read, click " Further".
After that press " close".
As a result, we have a file Windows Easy Transfer - items from your old PC.MIG on a USB flash drive.
We go to the second computer where you want to transfer the profile, run the Data Transfer Tool (Windows Easy Transfer), Click in the first window " Further", then select External hard drive or USB flash drive. In the next window select "This is my new computer".
Selecting portable profiles. If you press the button " Setting", you can manually select which files are worth transferring and which are not.
In case of an error Windows Easy Transfer failed to sign in with a domain account
Read the article on how to fix this error.
After a few minutes of waiting (depending on the size of the profile), you will receive a message that the transfer operation was successfully completed.
Now, if you log in to the new computer as the user that you transferred, you will need to change the password when logging in with the account of the transferred user, after that you will see all the settings that were on the old computer, including files on the desktop, in documents, etc. ..
They saw that I bought two drives, one of which is an SSD.
Naturally, I did not take it to store archives :).
So I made it a system one by installing Windows 7 on it.
Whatever manufacturers of SSD drives say about their reliability, it is still far from the reliability of HDD. Naturally, the first question arose about methods for increasing the life of the disk.
On the Internet, they just do not advise, for example, to transfer swap and temp to the HDD. Like, it is these resources that consume a significant number of rewrite cycles allocated to us by the manufacturer.
But why, then, was it necessary to put the system on a fast disk, if the resources most used by it would lie on a slow disk?
- Therefore, from a bunch of materials I read, I took out the following:
- Even if you don't follow any of the tips for configuring your system to work with an SSD, Windows 7 will run just a little less than great on an SSD.
- Some tips will reduce the number of writes to the SSD (at the expense of the overall slowdown of the system), which can extend its already relatively long life.
- Many tips will allow you to change some parameters without killing the performance of the system, but without giving any practical benefit :)
Actually, that's why the question arose of how to transfer the "Users" folder (C:\Users) to another drive.
The very first link in Google brought me to an article on ru.intel.com, where everything is described in detail.
I will give here detailed instructions from this article:
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You probably already noticed the presence in a freshly installed Windows Vista or Windows 7 system with a folder with an icon similar to shortcuts. Such folders in Windows 7, for example, are C:\Documents and Settings, C:\Users\All Users, etc. Omitting the technical details, these folders are links to the previous user folder locations (as it was in Windows XP) made at the level file system NTFS and they were created precisely in order to "soften" the transition from Windows XP, while maintaining compatibility with legacy applications.
And everything would be fine with their transfer, however, there is one “but”. All reasonable standard means copying/transferring files in one half of it, when such a folder is encountered, they will create an unknown NTFS object with the same name, while in the other half they will fall into an endless recursion, copying the folders to themselves. That is, there are very few tools that actually understand what a junction point is and even more so know how to work with them correctly.
One of the tools that can work correctly with junction points is the XXCOPY utility from the publisher Pixelab (http://www.xxcopy.com). It has an extensive set of copy functions, including the functions of copying access rights, backup, conditional copy, etc. And of course functions for copying junction points. In order to take full advantage of the XXCOPY features, you must use Pro version. The annoyance here is that it's not free, but we're not in any way violating the license agreement if we use the 60-day trial period for our purposes.
So, everything is ready to start transferring the Users folder, and in this article we will consider the case when the operating system is already installed and it is being actively used.
- Now a little more:
- It is necessary to create a new user with the name of type TempUser, which will be used to perform the data transfer operation. Reboot to clear locks on user profile files and log in as the newly created temporary user.
- This is where the fun begins, since the number of XXCOPY keys is amazing even for experienced Linux users. Without further ado, I tell you a ready-made command that should be run in cmd in order to copy the user profile folder to drive D:
xxcopy c:\Users d:\Users /E /H /K /SC /oE1 - In the registry, you should register the paths to the new location of the user profiles folder. In the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList branch, you should change the Default, ProfilesDirectory and Public keys in our case to "D:\Users\Default", "D:\Users" and "D:\Users\Public " respectively. The ProfileList branch also contains registry branches that store the parameters of users registered in the system, and if we want the profiles of existing users to be correctly transferred as well, we need to rewrite the ProfileImagePath key for each user branch.
- Everything is ready to use changes, but note that we did not actually transfer, but copied the data, so in case of errors it will be easy to go back. Reboot and log in with an account that is the system administrator (I believe this will be your regular account).
- After we make sure that the system has booted correctly and the profiles are now not on the system drive, we will use the possibilities NTFS systems, which interfered with us so much, for their own purposes. Let's create symbolic links on the system drive to the new user profile folder location to improve application compatibility. Since, as mentioned above, such links already exist on the system drive and junction points cannot be changed, we will delete the existing links and, at the same time, the transferred users folder: rd "C:\Documents and Settings" rd "C:\Users" /S Then create the links themselves: mklink /D "C:\Documents and Settings" "D:\Users" mklink /D "C:\Users" "D:\Users" If everything went well, then your system not only has a user profile folder on a dedicated drive, but also protection against possible errors through symbolic links pointing to the new location.
And I apologize for the time taken from those who knew this before me.
Win7 I use with Relase Candidate, but I have never installed it on a computer with more than one disk. So this is the first time I've encountered this issue.
Hello dear readers of the blog www.site. Today we will complete the description of the process operating system migration Windows 7 with saving user profiles, installed programs, data and settings by two hard drives. One of the disks solid state drive SSD 60 GB, the second is a conventional mechanical HDD.
The decision to make a dual configuration of hard drives was made after the volumes occupied by the operating system and user data. Due to the fact that they clearly exceeded 60 GB in total, it was not possible to transfer everything to one small SSD drive.
Looking ahead, I will say that for desktop computer this decision turned out to be not only successful, but also very profitable from a financial point of view. The total cost of a small SSD and a mechanical HDD is still less than the cost of one large SSD.
Even if you don’t feel sorry for money “for your own”, most likely, the volume of one SSD is really not enough. For example, my photo folders alone take up about 130 GB. And this despite the fact that the photos are mainly in jpg format. Who's in RAW? What if video? This I mean that you still have to either install another HDD, or connect an external one.
As for the speed of the system, there were initially serious concerns about whether the transfer of Windows 7 user profiles to a regular mechanical disk would negatively affect it. Fears were not confirmed - everything "flies". No, surely the computer's response would be even faster if solid state drive located not only the operating system, but also the data. But something tells me that in most practical cases this difference would not be very noticeable.
We return to the process. Last time we migrated the Windows 7 operating system to an SSD drive and user profiles to a mechanical HDD. To transfer user profiles, we tried to use the standard Windows 7 wizard "Windows Easy Transfer".
Unfortunately, the result was not quite the one we would like to see - the settings of some programs were not saved. This can be partly explained by the fact that with such a profile transfer, the absolute paths to the files change and some programs do not find them. Apparently, "Windows Easy Transfer" makes sense to use to solve those tasks for which it is directly intended. In a word, this is not Linux for you, where you can mount any partition on any disk in \home.
Today I will describe the second, very simple, way to transfer Windows 7 user folders to another drive. The idea of such a transfer was suggested to me by the Microsoft wizard at the moment when it refused to expand the saved profiles to the second disk and I had to deceive it by creating symbolic links. Here we are using them to the fullest.
Transferring Windows 7 User Folders Using Symbolic Links
We return to the moment when the preliminary optimization of the space occupied by the system on the C: drive has already been done, but the original user profiles from the C: drive have not yet been deleted. We copy the user directories to any available place or immediately to where they are supposed to be placed in the end.
It can be done different ways, the main thing is to save permissions on files and folders and not lose system and hidden ones. For example, using the command xcopy in the command line with administrator rights:
xcopy C:\Users\UserName\ X:\Users\UserName\ /E /H /O /X
username– name of the user profile directory;
X:\Users\UserName– destination folder;
/E
/H– hidden and system files are copied;
/O- Access control lists ACLs and data about the owner are saved;
/X– File audit information is copied.
Or, also on the command line, with the command robocopy:
robocopy C:\Users\UserName\ X:\Users\UserName\ /E /COPYALL /XJ
C:\Users\UserName, X:\Users\UserName– source and result;
/E– directories with subdirectories are copied, including empty ones;
/COPYALL– all information about files is copied (data about the owner, audit information, etc.);
/XJ— exclude connection points.
Team robocopy interesting in that it is designed for data replication and can remove "extra" files from the replica. It can be successfully used to create backups without completely overwriting all files.
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Rustam, your problem cannot be related to the transfer of profiles. In any case, on C: \, even if you did not specifically create a new user whose profile cannot be transferred, as recommended in the article, there is an "Administrator". If everything is in order with the system itself, then if the second disk with the transferred profiles is unavailable, such horrors cannot happen - Windows will boot. Tell us in more detail at what point the black screen occurs, after which it started. And what does it mean
I can't even reinstall Windows.
That's just the point that I had only one Administrator profile. Then I transferred it from SSD to HHD. Then, on drive D, where I transferred the Administrator profile, I made the Users folder invisible. Rebooted the laptop. Windows won't boot. Even the Windows logo does not appear. I decided to reinstall the OS, in AHCI mode the installation does not start at all. I switch to IDE mode, it stumbles at the “installation begins” step. Further nowhere. Although I had already installed the same copy of Windows with this flash drive on the same ultrabook before.
It looks like something is wrong in the bios or what?I want to connect a laptop to a computer and format all disks. Could you tell me how to connect a laptop and see all its contents from a computer?
Something very complex you have conceived. The content is easier to view by booting from a Live CD. For example, Parted Magic with GParted. I wrote about him. I would also like to understand what kind of Windows you are installing - problems with AHCI are confusing. Again, you can partition and format disks by running the installation of Windows 7. How to do bootable flash drive with Windows I described .
MBR and GPT are not tables, but records at the beginning of the disk. They cannot affect the visibility of drives in the BIOS. As far as I understand, your ultrabook does not assume independent use of SSD, but as a cache for HDD. I think that the solution to the problem should be found here. Can this laptop actually work with an SSD as a separate drive?
I can’t understand how you contrived to transfer a single user to another disk - when copying a profile, there should have been a huge number of errors due to file locks. But most importantly, I can not understand how even this wrong action could affect the inability to reinstall the system. There must be something else. M.b. did you change something in the BIOS?
Yeah. With the transfer, it is now clear that there was still a service account. But with a laptop it is completely incomprehensible. If you manage to solve the problem, and I have no doubt about it, be sure to unsubscribe. Very interesting. Unfortunately, without having a similar sample at hand, it is problematic to give you some practical advice. Sometimes the solution is hidden under the very nose. I remember how we once fought half the night with a server that refused to start after changing the controller. What they didn't do. Thank God they didn't really ruin it. But it turned out that by this moment they had already gone crazy and were trying to boot from the wrong device.
It may very well be. Acronis can easily not see something. For example, for me it does not see disks connected via USB to a computer with motherboard Intel DX58SO. Previously, too, constantly something came up of the same plan. To create backups, I now mainly use Live-CD with .
Well, he did everything right. Rebooted, everything worked ok. And then even the OS stopped loading. I can't even reinstall Windows. Only black screen.
Thanks for the Parted Magic program. Downloaded, but apparently something in the tables is not right. When trying to create or format a partition, an Input / Otput error during read or during write on dev / sda error is generated. They disappear altogether boot sectors HHD and SSD in bios. I don't understand what to do. It looks like something with GPT,MBR tables. Is there any way to fix the tables? By the way Asus laptop Zenbook UX32A.
Yes, the SSD is meant to be a cache, but I installed the OS on the SSD. And everything worked great. Then I decided to move the user folders to another drive. Transferred and... 🙂
Well, to transfer a single user, I created a temporary administrator, and after the transfer, I deleted this temporary administrator account. When copying user files, there were a couple of questions, but I skipped them. I don’t understand about the impossibility of reinstalling the system (It’s just that the impossibility of installing a new OS appeared even before I dug into the BIOS. But even after resetting the BIOS changes, it’s still the same.
I made a bootable Acronis flash drive.
And it gave an error "E000101F4: None found hard drive»
. How can this be if the BIOS has this situation:
Boot Opton Priorities
I go to
Hard Drive BBS Priorities
and there:
Boot Option #1
Boot Option #2
Transferring user profiles to another drive and changing the path to them is a very difficult task. However, it is quite doable, and in several different ways. After successful completion transfer, old profile folders can be deleted without problems.
Suppose you need to transfer a profile from drive C: to drive D:. Simply copying the profile files doesn't make sense, as that won't work.
The simplest and affordable way- use Transfer Tool windows data(Windows Easy Transfer). Thus, you can transfer absolutely the entire profile, including AppData folder and various system links associated with the profile.
First of all, you need to log into the account that we will be transferring. Then open the Transfer tool. To do this, click on the Start button and go to All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Windows Easy Transfer.
Windows Easy Transfer will start, in which, in fact, you just need to select the location where the user data will be saved. It's best to move them to external hard disk or USB flash drive, although no one bothers to select a network drive.
As a result, we will get a file with the .MIG extension, in which precious data will be stored.
1. Log in with an Administrator account and delete the old profile and all its files (if it's scary, you can save them in a safe place first).
2. Open the Registry Editor (Start > regedit).
3. Go to the system registry branch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.
4. Locate the ProfilesDirectory value and set it to the address of a new folder—say, D:\Users.
5. Reboot.
6. Log in with an Administrator account.
7. Create a new user account (see “Accounts windows records 7"). Name it the same as the remote account - however, this is just for convenience.
8. Log out and log in with the new account you just created. The profile folder will now be created where we specified earlier for the ProfilesDirectory value.
9. It remains to find the .MIG file created earlier and double-click on it. The wizard will transfer all user information to the new profile. If the name of the new account does not match the old one, then in the Transfer Wizard, in additional options, you just need to specify a new name.
This method refers to the transfer of a profile in a long-established system. However, sometimes it makes sense to do this immediately after installing windows 7.
Choosing a user profile location when installing windows 7
If you are reinstalling or installing windows 7 from scratch, it is convenient to immediately select a new location for the future user profile at the installation stage.
After the main steps of installing windows 7, let's stop at the window where you need to create a new user in the system. Do not rush to point it out and click to open the window command line.
Now let's move the profile to a new location. In our example, we are moving the C:\Users folder to the E:\Users folder, as well as the ProgramFiles and ProgramData folders.
1. Copy profiles, folder Program Files and ProgramData to a new location.
Robocopy "C:\Users" "E:\Users" /E /COPYALL /XJ robocopy "C:\Program Files" "E:\Program Files" /E /COPYALL /XJ robocopy "C:\ProgramData" "E: \ProgramData" /E /COPYALL /XJ
2. Delete the old folders and create the necessary links between the folders.
Program Files folder:
Rmdir "C:\Program Files" /S /Q mklink /J "C:\Program Files" "E:\Program Files"
Rmdir "C:\users" /S /Q mklink /J "C:\users" "E:\users"
ProgramData folder:
Rmdir "C:\ProgramData" /S /Q mklink /J "C:\ProgramData "E:\ProgramData"
It is likely that when deleting folders with the rmdir command, an error message will appear. You can delete these folders later, after a reboot.
Now type regedit to open the Registry Editor.
Go to the next branch:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion
Change the paths to the ProgramFilesDir and CommonFilesDir folders in it, entering the E:\ drive instead of the C:\ drive.
Now go to the list of user profiles and change the paths again to E:\ instead of C:\.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Close the Registry Editor. Now enter the following command:
Shutdown /r /t 0
The computer will be turned off, turn it on again. The user creation stage will appear again, create it and on this the installation of windows 7 and the transfer of profiles will be completed.
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We transfer the folders "Downloads", "My Documents", "Desktop" and other user folders to another drive in windows 7/8/8.1/10
When creating a new user in windows, the system allocates special folders for him to save various data: documents, images, music, videos, etc.; creating folders of the same name for this. By default, all of them are stored in the user folder on the disk with installed system, most often it is drive C. Most users store all their files in these standard folders.
But different situations happen, and at some point the operating system may crash and stop loading, the only way out is to complete reinstallation windows. Accordingly, all user files that were stored in the Downloads, Documents, Music, Video, Images folders will be deleted without a trace. To prevent this and in the future not to think that your photos, documents and music collection may be lost, you need to move the standard user folders to another drive.
How to move standard user folders in windows to another drive
You can move folders both to another disk partition if it has several partitions, or to another physical disk: internal or USB. For example, when windows is installed on an SSD drive, and a regular HDD is used for data.
Step 1 Go to the user folder, it is located at:
C:\Users\UserName
Step 2 Select the folder you want to transfer, right-click on it and select Properties from the context menu
Step 3 In the window that appears, click the Location tab. Click the Move button and specify the path where you want to move this folder. You can move to an existing folder or create a new one.
Step 4 Click the Apply button for the changes to take effect
Step 5 In the dialog that appears, confirm the move by clicking Yes
Do the same for other user directories.
Now your folders will no longer be stored on the system drive, and after the next reinstall windows all data will be intact. You will only need to re-specify the path to the data folders on another drive.
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Transferring the user profile folder (Users) to Windows 7. Part 1: At the installation stage
This is not my article, but I think it is very useful, so I am posting a corrected and supplemented copy. The task of moving the user profile folder from the system drive to another logical or physical drive in the OS windows families It's very important for a number of reasons:- The need to separate operational information (system) and archival data (user data) due, for example, to the need to store system files on a high speed but less reliable RAID0 disk array.
- No need for additional transfer of information when reinstalling the OS.
- Compared to transferring a single user profile, moving the Users folder is preferable, since the profiles of all subsequent users of the computer will also be saved in the right place, and there will be no need to go through the transfer procedure again.
Now about the scenario of transferring the Users folder:
As a bonus, you can also take advantage of so-called junction points to prevent errors related to explicitly specifying the old user profile folder paths. To do this, use the mklink utility to create two symbolic links (run with administrator rights): mklink /J C:\Users D:\Users mklink /J C:\ProgramData D:\ProgramData overrides and will work with folders on the C drive, although they will actually be located in the location you configured. For the compatibility of some applications with windows XP, I recommend making the following symbolic link: mklink /J "C:\Documents and Settings" D:\Users If the users folder already existed and you initial setup operating system, you set the previous username, then another folder for the profile will be created, and the old one will remain untouched. All files from the old folder should be transferred to the new one manually (it is advisable to boot under a completely different user so that files in the profile folder do not get blocked). Therefore, I recommend that after installing windows and after creating user profiles (for this you need to log in interactively once for each user), create a system image on the C: drive. In case of failure, you are deploying a system from an image in which user profiles are linked to their folders, and the problem described in the paragraph above will not be. kaktusenok.blogspot.ru
How to move folders from windows 7 user profile to another drive? - Basic questions about windows 7
The situation is as follows: There is a laptop with installed windows 7 Home Premium. On disk c: running out of space, only 600 MB left. The user saves all photos and music in his user folder. So here's the question: How can I move user folders to another drive. I'm trying to right-click on the user's folder on the desktop, but there are no properties there and there is no way to move the folder anywhere. Has anyone come across this issue before?
The entire user folder cannot be transferred at once. Do this: 1) Create new folder on another drive. 2) Open the user folder from the desktop. 3) Click on each folder (Images, Videos, etc.) with the right mouse button and select "Properties" 4) In the properties Select the "Location" tab 5) In the tab "Location", press the "Move" button and specify the newly created folder on another drive. 6) And so we do with each folder that we need to move 7) That's it, now physically all the moved folders will live on another drive, and access to them will be also from the desktop. In general, these movements will be invisible to the user.
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How to move user folders to another local drive in windows?
In the operating room windows system(in all its versions) there is a so-called user folder, which contains folders for storing the desktop, videos, documents, for downloading files from the Internet, for music, images, and others that are used less frequently. Since the folders are initially located on the system drive "C", over time this drive may become full. And if you bought yourself a small SSD drive, then, most likely, there will definitely not be enough space for the files stored in the user's folders. In this case, the location of these folders must be moved to another local disk, for example, "D" and I will talk about this in this article.
Now in more detail ... These user folders are primarily created for the convenience of the user, because they allow you to conveniently sort your information on your computer through the explorer, for example, videos, movies, etc. put in the "Video" folder, photos, pictures - in the "Images" folder, Well, what you place on the desktop is automatically placed in the "Desktop" folder. And even more so, the appearance of these folders is initially optimized in the system for certain data, videos, photos, music. And you don't need to create your own folders for all the good stuff that you have on your computer. In general, whether to use them or not is everyone's business.
If these folders are actively used for their intended purpose, then the information in them will clog a lot of disk space. As an example, my entire user folder is over 600 GB. What's wrong with that, you ask? Actually, there is nothing bad, but the problem will be when there is not enough space on your system disk. At the same time, increasing or decreasing the size of the system disk is a dangerous operation in which windows itself can be broken, that is, it will stop starting.
You can read information about resizing local disks here>>
And some users store most of their information, in general, on the desktop, which, accordingly, will also take up space on the C: drive.
Maybe this is news to someone that the desktop in windows is also a folder. Yes, that is right. The folder is called “Desktop” (or Desktop) and it is located in the user folder of the system under which you work, on drive C:
Or another option. Now many put under their SSD system discs instead of the usual hard drives. And these SSD pleasures are very expensive, well, that is, they cost much more than HDDs (hard drives), 2 times, or even 3 times. Because they work many times faster and windows generally works much faster with them. Since these disks are expensive, they usually buy them in such a volume that there is only enough for windows installation and programs for it. This is approximately 120 GB, a size that is enough for most of these purposes. But these 120 GB are no longer enough to store all the information on the computer, especially in the user's folders, because it is initially located on the same local disk as windows.
Here, above, I gave 2 examples, because of which you may need to change the location of the user's folders, especially the Desktop folder, and both of these examples are related to the lack of free space on the "C" drive.
Let's move on to practice...
How to migrate user folders to another local drive.
The user folder itself is standardly located at the following path in windows: C:\Users\Vladimir
Instead of "Vladimir" you will have the name of your account in windows.
Sometimes the "Users" folder may be called "Users".
In your user folder, you will see something like the following picture:
All user folders are displayed here, such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc. There may also be other folders, such as in the image above, that are not circled in red. Such folders can be created by some programs, that is, this is normal.
To change the folder location, you need to click on desired folder right click mouse (hereinafter "RMB"), select "Properties". Go to the "Location" tab (1) and click "Move" (2).
Will open windows explorer, where you need to select the folder to which the current one will be moved. It is better for the target folder (to which you transfer the current one) to create a new one with the same name, but on a different local drive.
Example. Move the Downloads folder from the old location to the new one. The old location in the example is: C:\Users\Vladimir Create a folder on the 2nd local drive with the same name "Downloads". Accordingly, when moving the old folder, in the "Location" tab, we select the new "Downloads" folder that we created.
After choosing a new location, click on the "Apply" window.
If you have any files in your Downloads folder, the system will prompt you to move them all to the new location you selected. Better files move. To do this, click "Yes" in the window.
We do the same with all other folders that are in your user folder. That is, we first create a folder with the same name in another local drive, then transfer the old folder to it.
Of course, you don’t have to transfer all the folders directly, but it’s better to do it anyway, so that nothing takes up extra space on your “C” drive. And for those who like to store a lot of files right on the desktop (I sometimes do it myself), I strongly recommend moving the Desktop folder! :)
Conclusion
That, in fact, is the whole process of transferring user folders to a new location. Nothing, as you can see, is difficult. But if you do it inattentively, for example, delete the source folder by accident, move it somewhere in the wrong place, then problems may arise. But all this is fixable, i.e. you definitely won’t break windows with these actions :)
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