Windows installer deletes user favorites on Drive D

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)

Kate Li,
Thank you for your interest. Did I note that R & D engineers from three Teams (setup, activation, security) have been looking at my machine?
Microsoft account server restores favorites after 3 days
PROBLEM... Three days after Windows 8.1 OS installation deleted my Favortites (see above), Microsoft Account server restored the files that Windows Setup mistakenly deleted. Set aside 5 hours + to integrate finally restored favorites. Thanks people,
kindly continue reading.
Open Internet Explorer.
Right click top bar to show Favorites. Click top right corner favorites star.
Drag and drop new address bar links onto star to place in root "Favorites" folder. Favorites folder links must be manually removed one-by-one using right click. Links can also be dragged between folders.
(note that contents of "Favorites bar" folder are displayed across top of browser window when Favorites bar is showing. "Favorites bar" is shown in the Favorites Star dropdown. When "Favorites" toolbar is selected, "Favortites
bar" toolbar should be a Favorites toolbar dropdown menu-tree explored and well-adapted in Vista+ versions, but hidden in Windows 8.1 since Favorites is removed and replaced by just "Favorites bar". When "Favorites bar" toolbar
is selected, existing 2013 Windows 8.1 favorites toolbar shows. This unique favorites architecture easily added to existing Windows Internet Explorer will offer huge customer benefits...
(note that each drag-and-drop Favorites Star menu action immediately closes menu as if there was only one action to perform! Internet Explorer Favorites Star drop menu is missing a standard active-x functionality built into Windows, and
very oddly missing from the Star menu. Favorites Star drop menu should lock in place until star is clicked to close, so that users can select and maintain multiple links using copy, move, delete actions without the menu constantly closing after each desktop
(office) action...
So two things for R & D to fix.
1.) Add "Favorites" on top of "Favorites bar" to browser top bar right right-click options, adding options to open in File Explorer or add-remove from toolbar display.
2.) Adapt current Favorites Star drop menu to include missing active-X Click-To-Close action, for easy favorites links and folders management... without (#$$$) slamming after every mouse action, interrupting work-flow!!!
WORKAROUND.
Windows browser Favorites benefit from extensive OS security oversight. One unfortunate result of this oversight is that large favorites collections in fact destabilize the entire Operating System. Oversight also means
that favorites management is exceedingly cumbersome.
We have implemented two advanced but helpful Favorites customizations that allow user to open two or more important link folders in File Explorer, so that links can be reasonably managed: one folder is the default C:\Users\Favorites folder and the other
folder is a large collection of personal links (personal links folder contains an archive of over 2,000 Internet links (a quantity far too large for Windows to store in default oversight Favorites location). Here now are the two folder path links added to
the Favorites Star root folder (using File Explorer to create and add the links manually to the default Favorites folder):
C:\Users\username\Favorites
Drive:\archive folder name
Drive:\another archive folder name 
Due to Microsoft's favorites oversight preoccupation, security for archived links in other local locations is simply managed by traditional Windows Defender or third party security.
Outside of the Internet Favorites folder security zone, in regular User folders. The oversight zone is extremely helpful in front-end Internet applications. However, Users require more default flexibility
in management of a system-wide local favorites. The two-plus folder customization described above offers advanced users quick and easy customization,
for the existing Favorites architecture only. Change is coming!
The click-to-close Favorites Star Menu is needed.
"Favorites" and "Favorites bar" right click top bar accessalso further implements existing security, customer easy-of-use, and work-flow.

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    Existing file is unversioned and unmodified - hash matches source file
    Limited user repair log reads:
    MSI (s) (78:8C) [15:26:27:406]: Executing op: FileCopy(SourceName=SETTIN~2.CON|customXML,SourceCabKey=customXML,DestName=customXML,Attributes=16384,FileSize=2633,PerTick=32768,,VerifyMedia=1,,,,,CheckCRC=0,,,InstallMode=16908288,HashOptions=0,HashPart1=-1992414570,HashPart2=1238809189,HashPart3=-80616146,HashPart4=146746036,,)
    MSI (s) (78:8C) [15:26:27:406]: File: c:\Documents and Settings\test\Application Data\customXML;
    To be installed; Won't patch;
    No existing file
    Your suggestions will be very much appreciated.

    Hello,
    Did you ever get to the root cause of this?
    I have a similar problem with a custom XML that is reported as "empty or is not a xml file." in the logs.
    Wondered if you had found the root cause?
    Kind regards,
    Sio.

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