I still have the old hard drive. I was told I could not use any cloning software to my dismay. We used to use USMT, but it's scripted and kind of complicated and not very flexible. We recently started using "Windows easy transfer" included with windows 7. You can copy the program to the network and run it on any XP machine.
It's very flexible in that you can choose specific users to transfer, then add additional folders you want transferred. On the new win7 computer you just doubleclick the. This method has turned out to be far superior to anything else we've tried.
I think if you were to try Nick's suggestion above, windows will create a new profile folder because the profile folder is not listed in the registry, and besides you might copy over things you don't want to like temp files and GUID information.
It's not too easy though. I'm not aware of a way to transfer a users printers to a new computer but this will help you back up the users data. These are the steps I use to copy over existing Windows XP user's desktop profile settings from their old Windows XP computers to a new or second Windows XP computer; or to recreate a user's profile on an existing Windows XP computer if the existing profile is currupt and needs to be replaced.
These steps should not be used if copying from Windows XP to Windows 7. DAT file stores the printer and drive mapping info so you do not have to resetup these for the user.
First step after logging in as the user, if the user has any mapped network drives or mapped printers, is to click on each mapped drive and mapped printer reestablishing the connection. Sometimes it takes a few tries clicking on the network printers as Windows has to redownload the network printer drivers from the server Local printers will have to be manually reinstalled the normal way.
Click once on each network drive mapping to reconnect the drive mapping as well. I use these steps everyday, and makes setting up replacement computers running Windows XP easy.
There are some specifics to the process, so take a look at a quick video walkthrough of it:. Log in as an alternate user with administrator privileges 3. You may also need to correct permissions on various files inside of that profile before the copy, then copy that users profile away from the C:Users folder, but be sure to leave out AppDataLocal and AppDataLocalLow 4.
DAT file as another hive and correct permissions for use with a target user if required. Unload that hive. Scan both the original profile and the copied profile to ensure the right number of files have been copied. Profile Replacement What does all of this lead you to? When you can create a base profile and extract previously used profiles you have the basis for most of your needs when managing users and computers, but you will sometimes need to overwrite or replace profiles. Trouble is, there is no known acceptable or working method of doing this.
I have found that profile replacement in Windows 7 can indeed be a messy process. The best method to handle profile replacement is Windows Easy Transfer. These two versions introduced a number of new ways to manage profiles and remove many of these things we used to use. The Easy Transfer tool has been completely removed here.
The default location for the user's profile should be. Note: This might not work when creating folders on FAT partitions, and if you're copying another user's profile you'll end up with a folder with YOUR name, not the user's name If this profile is to be used by a specific user make sure that user will have access right to the folder. In the Permitted to Use section click Change. Enter the user's name and press Check Names. You can choose to enter user names from the AD or from the local computer's SAM, depending upon it's membership in a domain or in a workgroup.
If the profile will be used by many users such as copying it to the Default User profile make sure you give Everyone access rights.
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