How to move user profile in Windows 7 to another directory / drive (1/2)

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(see config settings below)

Just a quick run down on the configurations you may need to change. The ProcessorArchitecture value (line 5, in the middle) to "x86" if you have a 32-bit Windows 7. Leave it to "amd64" if you have a 64-bit Windows 7.

Change the ProfilesDirectory and ProgramData values to to show desired locations of Users and ProgramData folders.

Change the drive letter to that of your DVD drive where Seven installation disk is located in second last line, after "wim:" (in the middle of the line) and following that, the correct Windows edition (HOMEBASIC, HOMEPREMIUM, PROFESSIONAL, ULTIMATE or ENTERPRISE).

Below is the relocate.xml that will be needed when running audit mode during the Windows 7 install. Be sure to update te settings below to match your configuration. Note that you will need to replace "[" with less than sign and "]" with greater than sign.
[?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?]
[unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"]
[settings pass="oobeSystem"]
[component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"]
[FolderLocations]
[ProfilesDirectory]E:\Users[/ProfilesDirectory]
[ProgramData]E:\ProgramData[/ProgramData]
[/FolderLocations]
[/component]
[/settings]
[cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:F:/sources/install.wim#Windows 7 ULTIMATE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" /]
[/unattend]







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