How to use old user folder with new windows installation.

Christofferj · 23 Oct 2019

Hello!
I just got a new SSD HDD installed in my computer, which have a new installation of Windows 10 pro on it (Version 1903), and it have created a new use, and my computer starts up using this windows installation... Now, I still have everything on my old HDD, including the old windows installation and user folder. Now I really want to use my old user and old user folders, where all my documents, files for several programs and such are, but I have no idea how to make a user and tell it to use that user folder.
Can anyone help?

Thanks a lot!

Berton · 23 Oct 2019

You'd be best served by Copying the contents of the old folders into the same folders of the new user. There's always a few files in use that can't be copied. I copy the folders to a different drive such as a USB HDD or USB Thumb drive both for an archive and then to copy the contents of each folder into the new user's folders of the same name.

Christofferj · 23 Oct 2019

Alright… I hoped windows was a bit smarter than that. lol.
Is there a specific way I have to do this, or is it just Ctrl+C and so forth? The classic way?

play2mefish · 23 Oct 2019

Robocopy would be an easy way to do this. A simple syntax would be:

robocopy d:\users\username c:\users\username

Where d represents the files you want to copy and c represents the new ssd drive.

Please, look up the syntax for robocopy and use only what you need. Hope this helps.

Christofferj · 23 Oct 2019

Thanks! Robocopy will help quite a lot!
Thanks for the fast help guys!

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Okay, new question… I tried to change the name of the new folder now, using this guide Change Name of User Profile Folder in Windows 10

But when I take a look in the regedit, I can only find "currentversion", which leads to "AutoRotation" in the Windows folder, where the profile SIDs should be. Any ideas?