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Fixing up OneDrive Personal on Windows 8.1 after forensit profile migration

  • I migrated my profile to a domain profile using the forensit migration tool
  • My onedrive location sits on another drive, this may explain why it didn't work, maybe, maybe not.
  • Using Windows 8.1 Pro
  • After the migration, I could no longer use Personal OneDrive. 

The trick is the SID pointer to the OneDrive location.   This is held in the registry at
 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SyncRootManager\SkyDrive\UserSyncRoots]

The "Name" will be your SID, the data will be where your local copy of one drive resides. 


To get your SID, fire up powershell and enter the following.  You are looking for your domain account.  Make note of your SID.

Get-WmiObject win32_useraccount | select Caption , SID

Once you have your SID, stick that in the right location at 
 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\SyncRootManager\SkyDrive\UserSyncRoots]




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