Hi, all! I've followed instructions from digitalinsane, so as to relocate Docs&Settings to a separate drive, using TotalCommander and RegistryCrawler. In regedit I'm to change the harddisk volume # appropriately, but am not sure how to determine this. Any ideas? To clarify everything, this is what I have below: [Drive 0] C:(swap) E:(XP) F:(backup) [Drive 1] D:(Paging) G:(Docs&Settings) H:(program files) In regedit HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\hivelist It currently has harddisk volume2, apparently corresponding to E: I will change the # ONLY the Documents And Settings\ and NOT Windows\System32. Based upon the above info, should G: be 5? One last question: With System Restore off (on all drives), why would the registry revert to the previous settings upon reboot? Sorry for the long post, and I appreciate all feedback! Any links are also appreciated! keesv

To put my "My documents" on to a separate drive. Right click my documents, properties, change C to D or whatever. Is that what you are trying to do? Before posting try google. Backup. Use anti virus software.

Sorry, I guess that I wasn't clear. I haven't a problem with making a directory for Documents And Settings (Copied from E: to G:), but the appropriate changes made in the registry (all E:\Documents And Settings must be changed to G:\Documents And Settings) revert back to E: upon reboot! I don't know why! The first question I had was: How do we know which harddisk volume # corresponds to each drive letter? I am sure that E: = 2, as it's set that way now; IDK, however, what # G: would be, though I'm guessing that it's 5, based upon the order of drive letters per drive (I have 2). keesv

Sorry, you have lost me. Before posting try google. Backup. Use anti virus software.

Look at the drives in Disk Management. That will show you which drive letters are assigned to which disk/volume. Life's more painless for the brainless.

True, it does show the hard drives and their associated drive letters (as I've listed in my original post); there is no mention, however, of harddiskVolume #. If I count them in order of appearance with the corresponding drives (being 0 and 1), is it safe to conclude that: C=1 E=2 F=3 D=4 G=5 H=6? Again, the purpose of this is to point (in hivelist) to the correct drive for D&S, which I do NOT want on E: but on G: keesv

I think you're making this way too difficult. Why not follow Microsoft's recommended steps to move the Profile folders? Located Here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314... Life's more painless for the brainless.