Much of Windows 8.1 reinstalling Windows in a User-preferred way is great, but it can backfire, badly. Windows 8.1 Full Version (Pro) cleaned Drive C using DiskPart.exe as per usual and installed Windows 8.1 to Drive C. During installation Windows installer specifically targeted and deleted all Favorites from Drive D where all user file copies are stored between installations. No other user files were deleted.
Related? Favorites was included in Windows 8.0/early 8.1 personal folders, and is no longer located there: all personal folders including Favorites were typically moved to Drive D disk, including Favorites from C:\Users\Favorites, when it was removed from Personal Folders (Regedit, namespace keys). On the one occasion where Windows installer mistakenly deleted Drive D favorites, Windows installer was replacing a Windows installation where favorites were uniquely copied to Drive C default location, rather than being moved to Drive D. This was the only occasion when Windows installer 'attacked' user files, and this was the only occasion where my Microsoft Windows 8.1 Account 'experienced' favorites being copied from another drive to the C drive (rather than the usual folder properties Location change).
First, has anyone else been effected by this bug (irregularity)? Second, since Windows reinstallation is 'pre-empting' and making decisions concerning user data, Should not the Account interface provide a way for the User to manage what is otherwise reckless installer behavior (other than the end-game Start screen Account layout Synch, obviously)? Minor Registry bug, or new installer functionality surfacing?
2014... 30 years an artist (web design, not development)