redirecting "documents and settings" or user profiles to another drive

[semo]

is there a way in windows xp to force anyone that logs on to have their entire profile go to a location other than \documents and settings?

i'm trying to set up a few computers where AD users' profiles go to a ramdisk

 

[EULA]

The way I used to do this was to modify a XP setup script and change the following:

[GuiUnattended]
ProfilesDir = "C:\Users"

I've tried replacing registry keys and ran into some pretty wierd errors. The above method seems to work best.

 

[semo]

kewl, i'll try this. not sure how i would change the drive letter that the users are on. maybe create a ramdisk with next available letter and then delete the hdd partition outside of windows so that the ramdsik moves up.

 

[RebateMonger]

I'm trying to understand where the RAMDisk is located and where it gets its initial User profiles from. Is the RAMDisk local to the PC, or something on the network? And where does the saved profile (that's loaded into the RAMdisk) come from?

 

[semo]

haven't had time to experiment with this and just used nlite to redirect the docs&settings folder (there was no [GuiUnattended]
ProfilesDir = "C:\Users" entry in the answer file but still worked).

@RebateMonger
-ramdisk is going to be on the local computer
-user (roaming) profiles are all stored on damin controllers and get downloaded to the local computer

i'm trying to find out if a user can log on quicker if their profile goes to ram instead of an hdd. my problem now is changing the drive letter of the ramdsik to that of where the documents and settings folder is. i tried doing it from hklm/system/MountedDevices but the ramdisk is not listed there.

the ramdisk i'm using is this one:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/...-2000-and-2003-server/ (2nd screenshot)

another problem is that the above ramdisk is fat32 and i need to have a script that formats it to ntfs before anyone logs on.

 

[semo]

so does anyone have any ideas?

the entire documents and settings folder is on a separate drive letter d: but now my problem is assigning d: to another partition or device.

when i assign d: to another partition windows complains that it can no longer find the user profile. it still creates a documents and settings folder on the "new" d: but doesn't read from it.

there must be a guid that windows assigns to the drive partition but i'm not sure how to find or edit it.