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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”
There used to be a native tool called Windows Easy Transfer, but it was dropped in Windows 10 in favor of third-party tools like PCmover and transwiz. There is still Microsoft's USMT, but that's designed as an enterprise tool and I think it depends on MECM.
Don't forget to check your permissions and selinux file contexts.
I mean, there's transfer wiz and profile wiz that'll do it, but not any builtin tools unfortunately.