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I need to move my C:\ProgramData
folder in a Windows 7 installation to D:\ProgramData
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I understand how to make the symlinks and registry changes so this works. My problem is that I'm unable to copy the files in the ProgramData
folder because the OS seems to have some of them locked.
Specifically, the files in the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys
folder are blocking the move.
Am I out of luck here? Is there any way to move the folder, create the symlink, and update the registry without any of the files in these folders being locked?
See: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/kb/949977
– Dheeraj V.S. – 2016-07-04T07:25:52.523Aside from doing it off-line (i.e. remove the drive and do it on another machine), I don't think this is possible. – None – 2009-12-17T12:49:37.923
Could you expand on "doing it off-line"? Right now I have 2 drives, an SSD that has win7 on it and a normal drive that has XP on it. In other words, I can still boot into the XP drive and copy the ProgramData from the win7 drive onto the winXP drive without locking issues.
My question is: if I do this and go in and change the registry settings on 7, will I risk rendering the win7 installation useless? – thinkzig – 2009-12-17T13:23:41.777