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It's by design. What if I boot from USB? Then what's on the disk is irrelevant. I can boot a kernel off a USB drive and chroot into any drive i feel like. Hell, I could boot from a USB and then chroot into my broken drive and reinstall the bootloader without having to reinstall the OS.
Lets see MS pull that off. I bet once you corrupt the registry enough you have no choice but to reformat and start over.
You can’t even put /Users fully onto a second drive without hacks that potentially break Windows Update because they can’t even be arsed to use their own environment variables or follow mounts.
“Reformatting huh? Hope you had a backup of all your documents, lol. Hey why not try OneDrive only $199 a year bro”
Man I forgot that you can't even import backed-up profiles into a new Windows install.
I mean, there's transfer wiz and profile wiz that'll do it, but not any builtin tools unfortunately.