Windows 7 duplicating Users folder on a separate partition

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Windows 7 duplicating Users folder on a separate partition

Hello everyone,

I have a 2TB drive that is split into 2 partitions, Partition A has a fresh install of Win 7 Ultimate on it, Partition B is a copy of all the info from my old hard drive. For some reason the Windows 7 install Users folder with all the data in it is being copied to the Windows\Documents & Settings\ folder of the old data. Also another weird thing is if I delete any of the mirrored files from Partition B x:\Windows\Documents & Settings\XXXX on they will also be removed from Partition A's x:\Users\XXXX. Its driving me a little crazy, if anyone knows what could be happening please let me know whats going on. One more thing, I have unmounted Partition B to see if the files are sym linked from Partition A, but it doesn't seem like the folders are sym linked as the files still accessible while Partition B is unmounted. One more thing is that the only data being replicated is the Primary User account and everything that resides in it.

[VladimirHac]

Hi,

i had a similar problem with my external hard drive. When you buy a hard drive of this size (1TB-8TB) you can experience this problem. The firmware in your hard drive is set to duplicate those files as a backup. My external hard drive did this to me as well. I solved this by formating my hard drive and dividing into partitions myself. Later I found a few words about this in my manual, you can set this in options somewhere depending on your hard drive. Best of luck, I hoped i helped you a bit, bye.