Posted 05/14/2009 at 02:19:20pm

I work on unix systems quite a bit and I really appreciate the filesystem based of the starting point of / (root) with no drive letters to mess with.  Starting with windows 2000 you can have your drives mounted in this fashion also instead of using a drive letter.  The only drive letter you would have to use is C.

1. Backup data in the C:\Users location
2. Delete the content from C:\Users
3. Using Disk Management, Create a partition on another drive to hold this information.  Do not assign a drive letter, instead choose volume mount point and specify C:\Users.
4. There you have it.  No registry changes neccesary.

This is also a great technique if you need more space on your C volume and don't want to mess with ghosting or imaging to a new drive.