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On my Windows 7 computer I have 2 drives, C: and D:. On C: drive I have my system installation, and on the D: drive I have my personal data.
I want to sync data between C: and D: on the user folder, so everything will be in the same place, and I could treat D: files path as C: drive.
Is there any way to do that?
Ido Naveh
Posted 2017-03-22T15:57:51.370
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If you are using NTFS, then you can use a symbolic link (MSDN Article)
For example (in cmd.exe - make sure you quote or escape spaces):
mklink /D "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\My Folder" "D:\My Folder"
Afterwards, you can access D:\My Folder via your home directory (presuming C:\Users\%USERNAME% is your home directory).
Attie
Posted 2017-03-22T15:57:51.370
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You can move your profile to another directory, how that is done is documented, have you done that? There is no way to have your profile directory on both drives though. – Ramhound – 2017-03-22T16:01:15.073
I don't want to move my profile, since after that I won't be able to upgrade later to Windows 10 – Ido Naveh – 2017-03-22T16:02:02.557
Why would you think that? Win 10 fully supports folder redirection, it shouldn't be an issue like it was with Windows 8.x. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10/upgrade-to-windows-10-from-windows-7-user-folder/2c7f838c-5326-4963-b91e-bd48edd7b245
– acejavelin – 2017-03-22T16:07:50.037Edit your question to specify which data exactly ( which folders ) you want to sync. Your statement, "so everything will be in the same place", seems to indicate you want to move your user profile to your data partition. – Ramhound – 2017-03-22T16:26:53.330
Would a link to a folder on the other drive be good enough? I wonder if windows can do bind mounts... – Xen2050 – 2017-03-22T17:29:29.013