I want to move the folder Program Files to another hard drive.
I have Windows 7 installed on a small primary partition on one of the two hard drives, double boot with Windows XP. My installation of Windows XP is on a smaller primary partition (like Windows 7) and Program Files folder on a separate drive logic in an extended partition, not on the system drive. I want to make a folder Program Files of Windows 7 on the same logical drive, Program Files and move the Program Files from Windows 7 folder to that partition on the second hard drive.
Just an update. I finally managed to move 'Users' on a separate partition, so my installation of Windows 7 now has Windows on a partition, the files program on a logical drive in an extended partition, and users on a separate logic in this extended partition.
On the Windows partition, there are junctions that point to the logical drive Program Files and the logical drive of users and editing the registry to set these default locations. Windows updates proceed normally and successfully. Program facilities smoothly and work as expected. I'll post my procedures on my site, I hope that in the near future, after that I tested and confirmed their on my other Windows 7 machines.
Be forewarned, however, that this separation will break the ability to repair/reinstall (upgrade on-site) Windows 7. It will stop when he sees that Program Files not are not on the system partition. However, in my particular case, I depend on third-party software disk for backup, Imaging for the loss of this functionality (repair/reinstall) has no real interest for me. Restore a disk image is much faster.
There are other methods posted on the net to separate these main divisions of Windows during the installation. My methods are intended to guide differently to an existing facility while retaining all the features. And once again, as shown in this thread, Microsoft Support seems to discourage that kind of thing.
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I have a problem which seems to have been discussed here, a few years back, but it seemed no resolution at the time.
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This to Re-partitioning of the C: drive for less of a catastrophe should my drive C: never kick the bucket.
I found the instructions online to move all (Local, LocalLow and roaming files. The instructions worked well upward, to the folder (Local).
I can't make it move. I checked the permissions and I should be OK here as I am the only user and administrator. All are checked in the Security tab.
Bottom line is I have aprox. 1.7 GB of info that I probably need to move to this folder (Local) and still can not.
I am attaching a sample of the message that I get trying to move the property path.
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(1) is it possible to move this folder?
(2) what I lose if I have a dead hard drive, if the (Local) file is not moved to the other disk?
(3) any person having legitimate suggestions, who has the same goal as me and want the cold hard facts to do that, we can
get help?
To all those who give their time, many thanks in advance and best wishes to you!
JEMM
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Disable this feature to unlock your serial number... Uninstall... Install fresh... also, the Adobe programs do not LIKE to install other drivers
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