Windows 10: Move my c:/Users/{profile} to the D:/users/{profile}

I have an SSD as the C: drive. and a large HDD as the D: drive.


Windows 10 Pro Version 1909


I want to keep the stuff I do not use all the time off the SSD drive.


I have two users Admin and {J} account.


I want to move the working data for the {j} account to D:/users/{j} . This would be repeated for any other users.


I tried to copy c:/Users to D:/Users and fix the Registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList



Fields:

Default to D:\Users\Default

ProfilesDirectory to D:\Users

Public to D:\Users\Public

...\ProfileList\S-1-S... to D:\Users\{j}


After Reboot was not able to login.


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Tried to change locations of {j} and the Location tab is not visible.


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What is the best practice for moving all the data to the D: drive?


What if I later get a USB optical drive and reboot with it plugged in is it going to grab the D: drive mapping?


I have read about the mklink command and want to know if I should link the C:\Users\{j} to D:\Users\{j}. or should I link the individual directories?


I know that the Users directory on the D: drive has no system meaning but I want to group the users for backup purposes.

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The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded.

Hello,

When attempting to login to my computer, I get the following message:

"The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in.

User profile cannot be loaded."

I referred to this Help article,You receive a "The User Profile Service failed the logon” error
message,

but the only difference is I only have one user profile on this computer. So, I can't login with another user to go through the steps listed in this post.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

 

User Profile Service failed

To resolve your concern, we suggest that you follow these steps:

• Copy the Default folder (in C:\Users) from another windows 10 computer.
• Rename the Default folder to something like DefaultOLD (just to keep it for safety reasons).
  
• Paste it in your Users folder.
• To make sure that you won't have problems with permissions of the "implant" folder, just transfer it via a FAT/FAT32 formatted USB stick (those filesystems don't have permissions).

This will provide solution to the error User Profile Service failed.

Let us know if you need more assistance.

 

migrate user profile

Hi Adeel,

For us to better understand the problem and provide you the best resolution, please clarify the following:

• What do you mean when you mentioned domain user profile?
• Are you trying to copy a local user profile to a domain account?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?
  

Regards.