This is about as late of a post as you can get from the original post.. but here it goes...

I must remind you that moving a production server with users accounts on it will be a pain in the arce.. its best to do this before you add users, or invest in advil....

This has been working for me 98% of the time so I thought I would share it...

Steps:

Log in as administrator

Create a backup copy of your registry

create a user with admin privilages (just call it temp and add him to the administrators group)

Log out

Log back in as temp

Create d:Documents and settings

run the big registry key from below

Run regedit

search for "%systemdrive%doc" and change %systemdrive% to d: (should be 3 changes on a clean system with temp account created)

Go to HKLMSYSTEMCONTROLSET001CONTROLHIVELIST
you will see 2 SIDs at the bottom of that key similar to the following...

\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-602162358-616249376-839522115-1001"="\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Documents and Settings\temp\NTUSER.DAT"

"\REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-602162358-616249376-839522115-1001_Classes"="\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Document s and Settings\temp\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat"

you will want to increment the HarddiskVolume to the correct location.. for example if you currently have volume2 for the c: drive, change that to volume 3 for the d: drive for each of those keys. This will also change the harddiskVolume for the other keys in the registry that work with the documents and settings folder.



Copy the folders (except the temp user folder and all users folder) from c:documents and settings to inside d:Documents and settings

Log out of the temp account and back in as administrator

try to copy the all users folder over to the d: drive and rename the c:documents and settings folder to another name. if succesfull you are done if you cannot rename it, you will need to complete this by doing the steps in this next section.

the only issue that i have come across is some times in server builds the following...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurr entVersionExplorerShell Folders]
"Common Start Menu"="D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu"
"Common Desktop"="D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop"
"Common AppData"="D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data"
"Common Programs"="D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs"
"Common Documents"="D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents"
"Common Administrative Tools"="D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"
"Common Startup"="D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
"Common Templates"="D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Templates"

some times doesnt apply the changes to the registry when I log back in the work around I came up with that works is reboot in safe mode and make the changes to those keys and then rename the docs and settings folder on the c: drive. the next time you reboot you can delete that folder then.


This was made for Windows server 2000 and assuming that you will be moving the folders to the d: drive, but should be a good starting point for all other MS OS versions..


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