Moving the Users Directory of Window 7 to a Different Drive =========================================================== Author: Momchil Ivanov Date : 2013.06.16 Introduction ------------ This article describes how to move the C:\Users directory of the Window 7 operating system to a different drive. Motivation ---------- It is useful to have the Users directory of the Windows operating system on a separate drive. This makes system maintenance easier, since one can reinstall the operating system without having to take care of the user data. Method ------ Boot in Rescue Mode and execute command prompt: $ d: $ robocopy /mir /copyall /xj Users e:\Users $ ren Users Users.old $ mklink /J Users d:\Users This method makes use of the rescue mode, the robocopy and the mklink utilities. It assumes that the C: drive is mapped to D: under the Rescue Mode and preserves the content of the C:\Users directory in C:\Users.old. After copying the content of the directory to the drive D:, C:\Users is created as a symbolic link to D:\Users.