Setting user accounts to run from different drive letters

I hope this is the right group to ask this in.........

I'm running XP Home, SP3. I have a system with two partitions on the hard
drive, C & D. C is for all programs, and I'd like D to be for user accounts.

It is really easy to set users 'My Documents' to run from the D drive, but
their settings seem to stay on C. IS there any way of setting things up so
that evetything to do with suers runs off the D drive?

Thanks

R

Ricky wrote:
> I hope this is the right group to ask this in.........
>
> I'm running XP Home, SP3. I have a system with two partitions on
> the hard drive, C & D. C is for all programs, and I'd like D to be
> for user accounts.
>
> It is really easy to set users 'My Documents' to run from the D
> drive, but their settings seem to stay on C. IS there any way of
> setting things up so that evetything to do with suers runs off the
> D drive?

After the initial installation - yes and no. During the initial
installation - sure.

Might I ask what you are hoping to gain doing this? It will give you no
performance benefits, it will not help protect the data in case of a
hardware failure, it will not help you (other than in saving the data) if
you need to format and install anew the operating system on the C drive. It
*will* make your backups simpler (backup the entire D partition.)

In any case - the answers to both (my "yes and no" and "sure" comments
above) can be found here:

Cannot move or rename the Documents and Settings folder
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/236621

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