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October 11, 2010 - 10:59am
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BAJennings
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Use Multiple external disk drives with Portable Apps

At this time I use one (1) external HDD to run PortableApps. I need to expand the disk space. I have two (2) more external HDD on which I would like to store Media such as Pictures and Music.

Is it possible to use three (3) separate external disk drives, where one contains the primary "PortableApps" menu, and the other two (2) drives contain the Documents and Media?

In other words, can I specify the directory or drive which the PortableApps menu uses as the Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos directories?

Thanks in advance,

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October 11, 2010 - 4:00pm
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Researching this

Perhaps a RAID 0 array of disks would work. I found a few articles about RAID 0 with USB devices. However, it looks like none of the suggested solutions work with Windows O/S. Additionally, the disk are of unequal size (40GB, 20GB, and 20GB).

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October 11, 2010 - 4:36pm
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IMO, a RAID 0 would be

IMO, a RAID 0 would be totally nonsense and also (likely) wouldn'd work with external media.

What might be of use is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link

maybe with a script to generate the links with the current drive letters in case they can change

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October 11, 2010 - 4:43pm
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You can't redirect the document shortcuts

In the menu, the location of the folders on the right side (Documents, Music, Pictures, Video) are hardcoded into the exe.

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