Windows 10: Moving user profile folders to another drive

Hi,My daughter bought an HP Notebook 2GB RAM, 32 GB eMMC SSD because the price was ridiculously low, but after a couple of months she'd filled up C:\drive and the notebook was unusable. Of course the job of "fixing" became mine. No problem I though since it had a microSD slot. Get a 256GB microSD card, put it in and redirect things to free up disk space.It turned out to be more interesting than I thought it would be. After all, redirecting a profile can't be that hard can it. That turned out to be slightly naive. I thought I might as well write it up.There are a few problems:1. When you put

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How to move the user profile folder to an external hard drive


*Confused I found a Windows 10 Forums article online about how to move the Users profile folder to an external drive, but it was not something easily understood by a not-too-techie user.

If there are some easy to follow step-by-step instructions on how to do this for a recently upgraded Windows 10 (not Windows Professional or Windows Enterprise) OS, I would be happy to get them.

 

Move Users Folder Location in Windows 10  

If not the best way to do that but at least the way I recommend:

• "Empty" your user profile folders as much as you can, copying documents, pics, videos, music and all other personal data from all user profiles to external HDD. As following steps require you to relocate Users folder two times, the less data is left in user profile folders, the faster the relocation process. Important: Leave system folder AppData for each profile intact, do not empty / move its content!
• Reverse the relocating, doing exactly as told in tutorial Method Two but this time relocating Users folder back to C: drive
• Shut down the PC, replace the disk where you had Users relocated
• Mount the new disk, boot to Windows, assign new disk the same drive ID letter than the old one had
• Again, do as told in Method Two, now relocating Users to new disk
• Restore the backed up personal user data from external drive to respective folders under each user profile

 

How do you move User Profile folders to another drive?

Thanks for the reply.

The problem, as I stated in my orginal post, is I don't have the Location tab on the folders in question.

I have User Profile folders on the 120GB SSD C drive and duplicate User Profiles folders on the 1TB D drive. These were setup by the PC manufacturer at some stage.

I have installed a 500GB SSD with the view to moving the D drive contents to the new drive.

Could I safely move the D drive User Profile folders manually?