How to move user profile in Windows 8 to another directory / drive

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Clean install method. Below is the relocate.xml that will be needed when running audit mode during the Windows 8 install. 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]G:\Users[/ProfilesDirectory]
[ProgramData]G:\ProgramData[/ProgramData]
[/FolderLocations]
[/component]
[/settings]
[cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:H:/sources/install.wim#Windows 8 Pro" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" /]
[/unattend]

The Win7 Part 1 introduction that I made somewhat explains the same purpose that will be taken for this Win8 user profile relocation video.

Windows 10 is around the corner. If this same method works again, I might make another video. I have better video equipment and tripod so it'll look better if I do. Sorry about the shaky iPhone.



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