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I have both a HDD and a SSD in my computer and after installing Windows I moved things around a little to ensure that the OS is on the SSD but my user profile resides on the SSD (with a few exceptions). I used junction points heavily for that. Windows and most applications are fine with that and it works well.
Now I wonder whether I can in-place upgrade this to Windows 8 while retaining that exact setup or whether there is anything I can do to ease the upgrade process.
I only linked a few programs (made
Program Files\Something
a junction each time) and my user home. So the latter one I should probably revert (it's just the most annoying one to revert ... yay :D) – Joey – 2012-10-31T07:34:57.817I got it to work now. A word of caution to others: The user's home directory cannot be a junction, otherwise all the Modern UI Apps won't work. So I had to resort to junctioning everything in my home. Also removing a bunch of junctions from Program Files resulted in shortcuts in the Start menu breaking – those were silently removed during upgrade. – Joey – 2012-11-06T07:18:13.667