Re: Your thoughts: moving user data folder to a different partition

What do you hope to gain?
IMHO a waste of time & resources
If your hd fails so does all your data
Either install a second drive and use an Imaging tool to image your primary
drive to this drive, on a scheduled basis, or use an external drive to do
the same thing.

"Idena" <> wrote in message
news:A5383B83-FA22-4DF6-8FB8-...
> Greetings. I have purchased a new desktop (a 64 bit Dell XPS 430)
> that will come with a Vista Home Premium. The desktop will
> have one user.
>
> I plan to partition its HD using a tool like pmagic. Partition C
> will have the OS. The new partition D will be for user data.
>
> I would like to move the /user folder that contains users
> files (e.g., documents, audio, video, downloads, etc) to the new
> partition D. (This is how I maintained my many XP systems: all
> user data, except settings, were on partition D).
>
> What is the most optimal approach? I have read Microsoft article
> 73760 entitled "Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide." My
> concern is NOT roaming data and thus do not wish to over do this
> at some performance cost.
>
> Another suggestion was to manually change the paths for the above
> folders in the registry. Is this a better approach?
>
> Though tedious, I will always be able to manually create folders
> on partition D and manually select the path for storage and retrieval
> if this is the most "optimal" approach.
>
> Your thoughtful suggestions will be appreciated.
>
> Ideena

I've seen instances where software doesn't work properly if you don't
use the default folders. Yes this is probably due to bad programming,
but that doesn't help you when it happens.

I think I prefer the solution already mentioned, install another drive
and periodically image the whole thing using something like Acronis. It
means if your main drive fails you can simply swap them and be up an
running again with minimal loss.

DL wrote:
> What do you hope to gain?
> IMHO a waste of time & resources
> If your hd fails so does all your data
> Either install a second drive and use an Imaging tool to image your primary
> drive to this drive, on a scheduled basis, or use an external drive to do
> the same thing.
>
> "Idena" <> wrote in message
> news:A5383B83-FA22-4DF6-8FB8-...
>> Greetings. I have purchased a new desktop (a 64 bit Dell XPS 430)
>> that will come with a Vista Home Premium. The desktop will
>> have one user.
>>
>> I plan to partition its HD using a tool like pmagic. Partition C
>> will have the OS. The new partition D will be for user data.
>>
>> I would like to move the /user folder that contains users
>> files (e.g., documents, audio, video, downloads, etc) to the new
>> partition D. (This is how I maintained my many XP systems: all
>> user data, except settings, were on partition D).
>>
>> What is the most optimal approach? I have read Microsoft article
>> 73760 entitled "Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide." My
>> concern is NOT roaming data and thus do not wish to over do this
>> at some performance cost.
>>
>> Another suggestion was to manually change the paths for the above
>> folders in the registry. Is this a better approach?
>>
>> Though tedious, I will always be able to manually create folders
>> on partition D and manually select the path for storage and retrieval
>> if this is the most "optimal" approach.
>>
>> Your thoughtful suggestions will be appreciated.
>>
>> Ideena
>
>

Why respond to me?

"Charlie Tame" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> I've seen instances where software doesn't work properly if you don't use
> the default folders. Yes this is probably due to bad programming, but that
> doesn't help you when it happens.
>
> I think I prefer the solution already mentioned, install another drive and
> periodically image the whole thing using something like Acronis. It means
> if your main drive fails you can simply swap them and be up an running
> again with minimal loss.
>
> DL wrote:
>> What do you hope to gain?
>> IMHO a waste of time & resources
>> If your hd fails so does all your data
>> Either install a second drive and use an Imaging tool to image your
>> primary drive to this drive, on a scheduled basis, or use an external
>> drive to do the same thing.
>>
>> "Idena" <> wrote in message
>> news:A5383B83-FA22-4DF6-8FB8-...
>>> Greetings. I have purchased a new desktop (a 64 bit Dell XPS 430)
>>> that will come with a Vista Home Premium. The desktop will
>>> have one user.
>>>
>>> I plan to partition its HD using a tool like pmagic. Partition C
>>> will have the OS. The new partition D will be for user data.
>>>
>>> I would like to move the /user folder that contains users
>>> files (e.g., documents, audio, video, downloads, etc) to the new
>>> partition D. (This is how I maintained my many XP systems: all
>>> user data, except settings, were on partition D).
>>>
>>> What is the most optimal approach? I have read Microsoft article
>>> 73760 entitled "Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide." My
>>> concern is NOT roaming data and thus do not wish to over do this
>>> at some performance cost.
>>>
>>> Another suggestion was to manually change the paths for the above
>>> folders in the registry. Is this a better approach?
>>>
>>> Though tedious, I will always be able to manually create folders
>>> on partition D and manually select the path for storage and retrieval
>>> if this is the most "optimal" approach.
>>>
>>> Your thoughtful suggestions will be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Ideena
>>

Oops, never mind, you were correct IMHO

DL wrote:
> Why respond to me?
>
> "Charlie Tame" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> I've seen instances where software doesn't work properly if you don't use
>> the default folders. Yes this is probably due to bad programming, but that
>> doesn't help you when it happens.
>>
>> I think I prefer the solution already mentioned, install another drive and
>> periodically image the whole thing using something like Acronis. It means
>> if your main drive fails you can simply swap them and be up an running
>> again with minimal loss.
>>
>> DL wrote:
>>> What do you hope to gain?
>>> IMHO a waste of time & resources
>>> If your hd fails so does all your data
>>> Either install a second drive and use an Imaging tool to image your
>>> primary drive to this drive, on a scheduled basis, or use an external
>>> drive to do the same thing.
>>>
>>> "Idena" <> wrote in message
>>> news:A5383B83-FA22-4DF6-8FB8-...
>>>> Greetings. I have purchased a new desktop (a 64 bit Dell XPS 430)
>>>> that will come with a Vista Home Premium. The desktop will
>>>> have one user.
>>>>
>>>> I plan to partition its HD using a tool like pmagic. Partition C
>>>> will have the OS. The new partition D will be for user data.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to move the /user folder that contains users
>>>> files (e.g., documents, audio, video, downloads, etc) to the new
>>>> partition D. (This is how I maintained my many XP systems: all
>>>> user data, except settings, were on partition D).
>>>>
>>>> What is the most optimal approach? I have read Microsoft article
>>>> 73760 entitled "Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide." My
>>>> concern is NOT roaming data and thus do not wish to over do this
>>>> at some performance cost.
>>>>
>>>> Another suggestion was to manually change the paths for the above
>>>> folders in the registry. Is this a better approach?
>>>>
>>>> Though tedious, I will always be able to manually create folders
>>>> on partition D and manually select the path for storage and retrieval
>>>> if this is the most "optimal" approach.
>>>>
>>>> Your thoughtful suggestions will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Ideena
>

ta

"Charlie Tame" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Oops, never mind, you were correct IMHO
>
> DL wrote:
>> Why respond to me?
>>
>> "Charlie Tame" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> I've seen instances where software doesn't work properly if you don't
>>> use the default folders. Yes this is probably due to bad programming,
>>> but that doesn't help you when it happens.
>>>
>>> I think I prefer the solution already mentioned, install another drive
>>> and periodically image the whole thing using something like Acronis. It
>>> means if your main drive fails you can simply swap them and be up an
>>> running again with minimal loss.
>>>
>>> DL wrote:
>>>> What do you hope to gain?
>>>> IMHO a waste of time & resources
>>>> If your hd fails so does all your data
>>>> Either install a second drive and use an Imaging tool to image your
>>>> primary drive to this drive, on a scheduled basis, or use an external
>>>> drive to do the same thing.
>>>>
>>>> "Idena" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:A5383B83-FA22-4DF6-8FB8-...
>>>>> Greetings. I have purchased a new desktop (a 64 bit Dell XPS 430)
>>>>> that will come with a Vista Home Premium. The desktop will
>>>>> have one user.
>>>>>
>>>>> I plan to partition its HD using a tool like pmagic. Partition C
>>>>> will have the OS. The new partition D will be for user data.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to move the /user folder that contains users
>>>>> files (e.g., documents, audio, video, downloads, etc) to the new
>>>>> partition D. (This is how I maintained my many XP systems: all
>>>>> user data, except settings, were on partition D).
>>>>>
>>>>> What is the most optimal approach? I have read Microsoft article
>>>>> 73760 entitled "Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide." My
>>>>> concern is NOT roaming data and thus do not wish to over do this
>>>>> at some performance cost.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another suggestion was to manually change the paths for the above
>>>>> folders in the registry. Is this a better approach?
>>>>>
>>>>> Though tedious, I will always be able to manually create folders
>>>>> on partition D and manually select the path for storage and retrieval
>>>>> if this is the most "optimal" approach.
>>>>>
>>>>> Your thoughtful suggestions will be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ideena
>>