Moving a user profile to a different drive letter in Windows XP

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Can someone please give me the right procedure to move a USERPROFILE from C drive to D drive in Windows XP? I found two questions on this forum and in one question the link is dead: How do you move your profile folder in Windows XP?

And another one, Move Windows profile directory?, suggests using mklink which does not work in XP. I tried dragging the user's profile with the right mouse button and selecting Move Here, but that did not work.

I would really appreciate it if someone could help here with some [hopefully] simple working steps.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 31 '11 at 18:05

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I used this approach in a previous life, worked for me.

http://www.cpsb.org/system/dataprocessing/File%20and%20Settings%20Transfer%20Wizard%20instructions.pdf

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answered May 31 '11 at 18:05

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

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Follow instructions here but instead of using mklink, since you are on XP, try fsutil.

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:17

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answered May 31 '11 at 18:52

Michael Pryor

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Moving a user profile to a different drive letter in Windows XP

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