I also recently upgraded my computer with a SSD, and this tutorial helped out a lot during the process. It allows you to set up your user accounts (My Documents, My Music, etc) on your old data drive during OS installation. This is a lot harder to do after you've installed Windows and usually ends up not working optimally.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...tallation.html
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When Windows 7 is installed, 5 or 6 system folders are created depending on chosen bit-version:
PerfLogs (Performance Logs), where Windows stores performance and reliability logs
Program Files, where applications and software are installed. Windows x86 (32-bit) stores all applications here, Windows x64 (64-bit) only native 64-bit applications
Program Files (x86), only in Windows x64. All non-x64 applications are stored here
Windows, which contains core operating system files and drivers
ProgramData, where some applications store application and user specific settings and configuration files
Users. This is the “home” of all user folders. When a new user account is created and this new user logs in first time, Windows creates a set of user specific folders Users\New_User
Moving Windows and Program Files folders is not recommended by Microsoft. However, moving both Users and ProgramData folders is safe and can save a lot of space on system disk. Pictures, mp3’s videos, documents and so on, a user folder with its subfolders can be tens, sometimes hundreds of gigabytes.
For instance, using this laptop of mine as an example, the total size of Users folder and subfolders is at the moment about 240 GB. The size of ProgramData folder is at the moment almost 18 GB. I simply could not have these folders stored in my system C: drive, there’s not enough space.
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