Windows 7 User Folder Migration Troubleshooting example

After you recently upgraded a subordinate client from Windows XP to windows 7 , you need to migrate to D to ensure that the user folder data is not lost during recovery disk. The WIndows 7 Start User folder is unable to migrate directly from the C Drive to the D Drive with the tool . On the internet to find a bit or there is a way to migrate, after the installation of the comparison of the cost of more than a few steps to ensure the reliability of installation directly at the time of installation to change the user folder letter.

When the new system is installed:

in the installation Win7 in the process, the need to enter a user name and password, the first time to enter any information, press "SHIFT+F10" Exhale out DOS window, enter the following command in turn:

　　robocopy "C:\Users" "X : \users "/e/copyall/xj

　　RmDir "C:\Users"/s/q

　　mklink/j "C:\Users" "X : \users "

then close DOS window, proceed to installation step by step until completed. (Note: The space between the parameters of the above command must not be omitted)

so installed " ( x disk (not the system disk).

for the convenience of employees using the default placement on the D Drive, after the installation is complete, view the Discovery User folder and run to the F Drive. Repeated installation two times is still the case. Find after finding is because partition, at the time of installation DOS D disk is actually the fourth logical partition, after Windows boot the drive letter back to the second primary partition , resulting in such a result. Direct copy doesn't work, but the data is all on the last logical partition, and there's a certain amount of trouble in recovering the data. After multiple tests, it is still possible to change. Only after copying the user folder to the D Drive, use the Registry tool to modify the following key values (the changes here need to be carefully directed to the user cannot log in)hkey_ Localmechine/Software/Microsoft/WindowsNT/CurrentVersion/profilelistthere is a directory in which the s-1-5-21 begins.ProfileImagePaththe drive letter address in the key value is changed to D , and then the same folder name . bak suffix is deleted after the restart can be implemented to the user folder default storage path to D Drive.

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Windows 7 User Folder Migration Troubleshooting example