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Moving users folder on Windows Vista to another partition - bad idea?

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Mar 15, 20264618 views
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I am aware of two questions - one here and one on serverfault which ask HOW to do this. I even provided answers myself, having done it a few months back. But now I'm having second thoughts. My plan was to be able to backup and restore system and user data independently. But I obviously wasn't think…

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It's a perfectly good plan. However as you noted ntuser.dat is located in your user folder. This file is where all your registry settings are located, you can see it using regedit and then look at HKEYCURRENTUSER. ntuser.dat will be held open as lon…

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