Ok, here's what I did. I set the profile locations for each user to be in e:\Documents and Settings\"username". E: is a partition from C:. Now, when I did this everything works great, but then I noticed the C: drive filling very quickly. I looked and noticed that there are exact duplicates of everything in the e:\documents and settings directory in C:\documents and settings. Why does it do this? I tried to reset the user profile paths and that didn't seem to work. I tried to delete (at least hide) the directories in the C: drive, but that was very bad. Lost a lot of stuff. What can I do to force it to use only the e: drive and not copy to the c: drive? I partitioned the hard drive this way for a reason, and now I am defeating the purpose by having many users with 3 gigs of data taking up 6 gigs each. Help me please. .... Thanks. Steve
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User Profile locations
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This article is for win2000, but will work for XP also. Ignore the first part because that would be how to do it if you were just installing (which you've already done).
After you copy the profiles from C:\ to E: you can always start Regedit and find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. There will be a series of folders under the profilelist. Each folder is for a specific user, some are used by the system and othres are actual users. If you click through the folders you will see in the right side of the window an enrty named ProfileImagePath. The value will be %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\User. Just change %SystemDrive% to the absolute path E:\Documents and Settings\User. The only other way I know of is within an Windows domain force a group policy with folder redirection.
Let me know if this helps.
Let me know if this helps.
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Thanks P1967F for your advice and thank you smah for the article. I went through the article and did it step by step. At least I tried to. It doesn't work. You can't copy certain files. Not even in safe mode with command prompt only. It says access denied. Anyway, to make a long story short, I am just glad I backed all my data and downloads up to another drive because for the next couple of days, I will be reinstalling XP on a completely reformatted and repartitioned drive. Provided that grinding noise it's now making is nothing important. Steve
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