Replace profile windows 7

HV01 is also used in this topic to host the PC virtual machine for demonstration purposes, however typically PC is a physical computer. To prepare for the computer replace, you need to create a folder in which to store the backup and a backup only task sequence to run on the old computer.

Right-click the Other folder and select New Task Sequence. Use the following settings for the New Task Sequence Wizard:. Notice that it only contains a subset of the normal client task sequence actions. If you are replacing the computer at a remote site you should create the MigData folder on MDT02 and use that share instead.

To demonstrate deployment of the replacement computer, HV01 is used to host a virtual machine: PC Skip to main content. However, Migration Wizard allows you to restore to a different profile name if you want. I think it was under some advanced button or something during the restore. Hmm, this ended up being much longer than I intended. Anyway, hope all that answer the question and helps someone. Thanks for laying this out step-by-step.

I have two questions for you:. First, did you have any problems with applications that reference the original path for user profile? Second, I stumbled upon what appears to be a Windows 7 option for this exact operation, but was curious whether anyone else had tried this and if so with what results.

Done it a while back for someone on Vista to leave him with an image so he could restore his PC to the state I handed it to him and his data would be kept on a different partition. Followed the instructions as shown by you, just that when i copied the folders from C: to D: I ran the Explorer as Admin. Now I'm asking myself how I could delete that C:Users folder, after I have created a new Admin account with which I intend to work and having deleted that, let me call it admin-account-created-by-windows-during-installation as I see no need for it any more?

When I try to do so, I'm getting an error message regarding the libraries, those meta-folders. When i double click the admin-account-created-by-windows-during-installation user folder it's empty, still showing a lock on it though.

It tried to become the owner with the according right to do so, not sure what I did there and if it worked but still can't delete it — still that library error message — won't let me remove the whole folder. I don't think copying profiles from one drive to another would move everything over ideally.

It may still leave things behind in the original folder. I would suggest leaving these folders as they are. Hope they don't bother you too much. At least, they haven't bothered me. Great tips here guys! I could also use some help. What I want to do is just have the essential Windows files on the SSD and keep everything else the same.

I think you understand what I am asking here? I dont think ur instructions are very clear after all, am I supposed to create a new folder in the new directory called User, and then copy the Default folder and Public Folders to it? I have one concern, can I have the profiles in D drive where D is protected by bitlock encryption? When I use this method, I get an error when I set up a new user and then try to log into that new user.

It says that it cannot access the new user's profile location, that it might be on another network etc. I look in the users directory and there is no folder created for the new user.

I even tried resetting the permissions on the new users folder 'e:users' to match those for the c:users folder and subfolders , but this didn't help either.

Any thoughts? Wanted to do this just to have my user profile and more importantly the appdata directory on my mechanical 1. After installing win 7, changed just the 'profilesdirectory' setting from the default to d:users. Created a new account.

Logged into it and then changed the registry setting back to default. Then started to install programs. Then ran into an issue that I did not have before when running the with my user profile on the c: drive in win 7.

That is that some programs that worked, now complain that they cannot write to the HDD. Speedfan gives errors after it's detection run, saying it cannot write to various files. COD says 'Modern warefare 2could not write a file. The hard drive is probably full'. But if I run them both as administrator or change the permissions of their directories in Program Files x86 to allow users write access no more error messages.

Also to test further I created another account using the default registry settings, so put's the account in the c:users dir. When I log into this account I no longer have to mess around with running as admin or changing permissions to get these to programs to work.

They work in the default non admin, user mode. Am not desperate to install any more programs while this issue exists. Thanks for the tip. A copy from the GUI won't do this. Without that you can run into troubles; i. I just did the same thing. In addition, all the applications in the start menu went missing. And you didn't see any pics available when you created the user. All fixed now.

But I created my new user with that mistake — going to kill and recreate the user anew just in case! I just tried this fix on Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit and it did not work.

I have a new Windows 7 system and there is no possibility this will work. Even though I boot up in a different account, when I try to copy the account I want copied from within the User Profiles window, the Copy To button is disabled. Copy it manually is not all possible. Even if I were somehow overcome the permissions bug it certainly looks like a bug , I can't see how I could copy the registry hives.

Even a working Windows doesn't let you copy that. Thank you so much! I just installed windows 7 on a clean hard drive and followed your simple steps. Now my disk allocations are so much more efficient, organized, and easy to work with. Going into the future, there is nothing like doing it right the first time.

I successfully transferred the Users folder to my D Drive in Vista a couple of years ago. I now want to upgrade to Win 7 professional. Will the in-place upgrade option preserve the settings I have in Vista, or over-ride to the default? As many users confirm, the described procedure works. However I have a question. Being logged in as Administrator I see 5 directories in the C:Users.

But should the first statement be interpreted in the similar way? However xcopy puts for each symbolic link in the source directory not a copy of symbolic link but copy of the file linked by it.

C:UsersDefault directory contains many links, thus the copy on D: will be different than original directory on C:. Is it a copy of C:UsersDefault locked during the session and destroyed after logout, so we can ignore it? I went through your process, restarted and was locked out.

After much head scratching and fiddling in safe mode, I realised it was an IDT error. I just failed to read the instructions re Default carefully enough. I have had my windows 7 laptop for about a year—no problem until yesterday. You cannot access your files, and files created in this profile will be deleted when you log off.

I ran AVG virus scan and found no problem. HP tech help insisted that I just set up a new profile and recover files but when I tried this through Carbonite, everything disappears when I turn the computer off and reboot—just like the message says.

Do I need to download a program to move these files, or is it done in command prompt under administrator? Will this make is so the Documents, etc etc on the start menu point to these folders on the new drive?

Referring to folders like AppData, not My Documents: Since Windows is constantly moving files in and out of this folder it seems like it would be very slow to force the system to physically move modified files in and out of a different partition than C:, rather than simply renaming them in-place.

Step 1. Go to safe mode with command prompt. Then, type rstrui to open system restore window. Step 2. Then, you will see restore system files and settings window below and click Next.

Step 4. Preview and confirm the restore point you are currently chosen, click Finish to recover user profile in Windows 7. Before recreating user profiles, you still need to check if the profile service is working properly.

If it is, you can use the following method to fix this error. Note that the feature name may be a little different, just use the following steps in Windows 7 as a reference. To check the profiles service status, please start your computer with " safe mode with command prompt ". If you successfully log in with new user, the profile service is ok.

Step 3. In this window, type a name for your new account and select an account type. Then, click Create Account. At last, click Apply and OK to run the pending operation. Similar to recreating user profile, you need to check the status of profile service first. Then, try steps below to find the corrupted Profile Subkey in Windows registry and fix a corrupted user profile.

Enter into the Registry window. Check the subkeys named S followed by a long number and see if there are subkeys with the same name. The only difference is that one of them has the. If that's your case, you can fix it using. If that's not your case, you can delete the corrupted user profile from the registry. Check the ProfileImagePath value of subkey S with. Rename the subkey with.