Moving the Users Directory of Window 7 to a Different Drive
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Author: Momchil Ivanov <momchil@xaxo.eu>
Date  : 2013.06.16

Introduction
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  This article describes how to move the C:\Users directory of the
  Window 7 operating system to a different drive.

Motivation
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  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
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  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.