Windows 10: Moving USERS folder to D: drive, no install.wim file, just boot.wim?

Hi everyone,

I have just done a clean, fresh reinstall of Windows 10 using the USB media creation tool (installs a clean 1607 build and then I update it), but I'm running on a laptop with small SSD and a huge secondary hard drive. So now I want to migrate the C:\USERS folder location to D: drive. I am trying to follow an excellent guide from tenforums, using the relocate.xml file. However, on my Windows 10 USB boot stock, I do not have the \sources\install.wim file necessary for this step.

The only wim file there is on the USB media stick is \sources\boot.wim.

Can I still go on with the procedure described above and put "boot.wim" instead of "install.wim" on the USB drive (G*Smile in the relocate.xml file?

I would very much try to avoid digging up the Windows 10 original CD which does have the install.wim file. First, I'm not sure where it is, but also, I am trying to solve a very annoying problem with windows, which has happenned during the update of older Windows 10 build to anniversary update - so I would like to avoid any windows components or installation that are older than 1607 build, like the Windows 10 CD.


Thanks

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error code after trying to install windows 10 security update

The update worked fine when I moved the large files to a folder outside the users folder to another folder on the d: drive (I moved them back after the update).

I’m pretty sure this was the problem in my case. There’s no reason why the update script should be moving the user files from the "d:\windows.old" folder (it creates to hold them during the update) to "c:\users" then back to the new d:\users folder. It would
only takes seconds to move big files between folders on the same drive but it can take hours to move them from one drive to the other and then back again. This is what the update is doing and this is why the update seems like it’s hanging up during the file
migration phase (or failing when the files are too large to fit on smaller SSD C: drives intended by many users to hold the OS and Programs only.

I’m going to try it again on my second pc but this time I’m going to move all files from the 'users\[name]' and 'users\public' folders (including the \documents, \downloads, \music and \video folders) to a folder on the same 'd:' drive but outside the users
folder.

 

Is it safe to move the AppData Folder?

Hello,

i want to ask if moving the AppData Folder to my D: Drive with symlinks AND changing the path in the registry is helpfull.

I'm asking this, because i want to outsource my User Folder from the normal C: Drive which is a small SSD.

I know it could be unstable and not very performant, but is it safe to move? I had Problems moving the Program Files and Program Files (x86) Folder to my D: Drive where i couldn't install updates properely. It just matters if the System can't work with that
way.

 

Notice at the beginning of the tutorial you linked to (Users Folder - Move Location in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums) that you have to use Option One to get the Windows ISO file to create the Windows 10 USB flash drive from. It contains install.wim. The USB flash drive that the Media Creation Tool Creates (which is Option Two) contains install.esd in the sources folder instead of install.wim.

Windows 10 ISO Download - Windows 10 Forums

 

Hm, that's true, I used my old USB Media Cration Tool stick, guess I forgot.

In the meantime, I actually found elsewhere on tenforums that that line is not so important *Smile So I did the migration without that line in XML, seems to have worked fine *Biggrin

Thanks