Windows 10 upgrade with moved profile location

Stolly

Stolly

Stolly

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Anyone had success upgrading from 7 to 10 when you've changed the default profile location ? I've got mine on my big 3Tb SATA disk leaving the OS on the smaller SSD.

Win10 upgrade fails repeatedly both with media i created, and with the windows update method.

Gets to the full screen installing Windows bit, says PC will reboot in a moment. The installer exits leaving me at the 7 desktop. When i manually reboot, it boots into Windows 10 setup...a "upgrading Windows" very briefly flashes on the screen and then another reboot and back to 7.

Not sure why, wondered if the profile location is the issue.
 
Yep i had the issue. Reset the redirect paths back to C: but left files where they were (dont copy when it prompts).

Then went through the upgrade process and all was ok.

Once into Win10, pointed my directories back at my media disk.

Bit of a hassle but got it working without any drama once found out that was what was causing the upgrade problem
 
hmm created a new account with the profile at the default location...same result.

Guess it wants all accounts with the profiles at the default location...Its a family PC with 3 accounts on it. CBA dealing with that for now will come back to it after hols.

You would have thought that they would have written the installer to cope with this. Oh well.
 
I used to run my profiles from another drive, especially back in the small SSD days. But in-place upgrades have never been supported in this scenario. More recently there have been a couple of Windows updates which would refuse to install if your profiles were not in the default location.

It really is PITA to switch back and forth just to install an update. So I now run my profiles from the default location and just redirect the Documents, Music, Videos, etc. folders which is fully supported.
 
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