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What will be the best way be to restore D:\Users back to C:\Users after move? Computer is running on Vista OS and I think to get Users folder on another partition was used method described here https://serverfault.com/questions/8187/whats-the-best-way-to-move-c-users-to-d-users-under-vista-w7
robocopy C:\Users D:\Users /mir /xj /copyall
mklink C:\Users D:\Users /j
I need to get User folder back on C due failure upgrade to Windows 7 (doesn't recognize that User folder is on D:)
Not sure if steps below are sufficient enough to accomplish that task:
rmdir C:\Users #remove junction link
robocopy D:\Users C:\Users /e /xj /copyall
rmdir /S /Q D:\Users
mklink D:\Users C:\Users /j #to be safe if something will try to save to D:\Users
With the
robocopy
is better to use\e
or\mir
option and then skip two steps and use your solution to replace in the registry? – JackTheKnife – 2015-10-02T14:41:01.900Your comment is ambiguous, could you please rephrase? I don't understand if you: a) want to know if it's better to use
/e
or/mir
or b) want to confirm a new plan (robocopy
with either switch then skip two steps then replace registry entries). – André Chalella – 2015-10-02T14:53:01.437Option a) - which one is better to go for? – JackTheKnife – 2015-10-02T15:33:48.097
1They should be equivalent, since the destination (
C:\Users
) won't exist before the command. Please make sure you don't misspell the forward slash (/
) like you did in the comment (you wrote backslashes). Also, see the edit I'm about to make. – André Chalella – 2015-10-02T15:36:33.207I have ended up with adding
/zb
trigger to the robocopy line as I had multiple Access Denied errors during copying files (something wrong with ACL). System booted w/o any issues but didn't checked functionality yet. – JackTheKnife – 2015-10-05T13:42:21.707