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I've been interested in running another OS on my Thinkpad for some time but I've never been able to make enough room on the hard drive. Now that I have an extra 750 gigs to work with, I think I can finally make some space.
If I add another partition and install Windows 7 on it, could I configure it to use certain user folders (the ones under C:\Documents and Settings\MyLoginID, i.e., "My Documents" and "My Music") on the WinXP partition? I'd also like to run Thunderbird/Firefox/MS Office/various games/etc from the XP partition without worrying where temp files and data files are stored (I'm assuming 7 is backward compatible.)
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JTK, Windows 7 uses the same user profile scheme that Windows Vista uses. There is no longer a Documents and Settings folder. It's located under the "users" folder instead. Takes a little getting used to as well.
In order to have both partitions see the same data, that data needs to be saved on a third partition which holds only data. You can modify XP to point to that drive to hold its user data by following the instructions here.
In Windows 7 (assuming the general UI is similar to Vista), you can right click on any folders in your User folder, click properties, and then change the location to save and view files from the My Documents folder on the third partition. This should get you what you want, but I haven't yet tried this myself.
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