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> not requiring installation It's a strange quirk of Windows that when you install a new piece of software, it will ask you in the wizard where you want to sto
by ______- 5y ago
> not requiring installation
It's a strange quirk of Windows that when you install a new piece of software, it will ask you in the wizard where you want to store it (C: drive or D: drive). D: is usually an external hard-drive, and so I select that. But the D: drive can magically become the E: drive in some cases when you have other media inserted like an SD card. So this is why I prefer portability since the path is agnostic and portable software doesn't care about drive letters.
- feikname 5y agotip: IIRC you can set partitions to specific "folders" rather than drive letters by using Windows' Disk Management tool.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoYes, as Mount Points. When you partition and format storage in Disk Management, it asks you what drive letter you want to assign, and that dialog has the option to alternatively specify a folder on an existing disk instead.