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Windows Vista File Management Issues or questions in relation to Vista's file management. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management) |
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Want to Move /User and /Program Files folders
I want to prepare an existing setup for solid state drives. I want to
make my C: drive as read only as possible. I would like to move the contents of /User and /Program Files off of the C: drive to new empty drives and mount point these to the new drives. I believe that I need to do this while booted from either a maintenance partition or a recovery boot of some sort. I have a few questions I hope someone can help me with. Can this operation be performed from an emergency recovery boot? Will it be possible to retain or recover my security settings of the moved items? If I have to perform this while booted from a maintenance partition, would there be a chance of misdirection with the mountpoint since the drives and partitions would be ordered or numbered differently while booted from an alternate drive? Thanks for the time and help. -john ps. I remember doing similar with windows 2000. I moved my /Program Files folder onto a larger drive while booted from a maintenance partition. The resulting setup worked very well. |