Puting OS on D drive

[Cokelover58]

So I want to put my windows 10 onto my new SSD but I want my SSD to be drive D. If I only plug in my SSD and install Win10 on it wont it be on my C drive?

[Aniallation]

Why do you want [it to be on] the D?

[manikyath]

pretty sure that "C" means the drive the os is installed on, for historic reasons.

[comefightme]

Go to disk manager, name ur boot drive ssd D:, done 

[Cokelover58]

I just don't wont it to be on my C drive. Just used D as an example.

[byalexandr]

I think it has to be labeled as C: for Microsoft reasons.

[manikyath]

Go to disk manager, name ur boot drive ssd D:, done 

that'll break every piece of software on the drive that isnt portable.

(probably including windows)

[Aniallation]

pretty sure that "C" means the drive the os is installed on, for historic reasons.

I think it has to be labeled as C: for Microsoft reasons.

 

I have had my OS get installed on D: quite a few times. Mostly in the XP era, and I have no clue how it happened. It didn't break anything though.

[byalexandr]

I have had my OS get installed on D: quite a few times. Mostly in the XP era, and I have no clue how it happened. It didn't break anything though.

Hmm... In all of the times I've installed Windows 10 I haven't seen the option to label partitions differently though, at least not in the Windows installer itself.

[manikyath]

I have had my OS get installed on D: quite a few times. Mostly in the XP era, and I have no clue how it happened. It didn't break anything though.

if you can label the drive as "D" before installing (or change all C: references to D: references afterwards, GL on that one) you should be fine.

[Aniallation]

Hmm... In all of the times I've installed Windows 10 I haven't seen the option to label partitions differently though, at least not in the Windows installer itself.

I think how it happened is that the drive already has a partition on it that's C and when I make a second partition using unallocated space in the installer, it becomes D, and Windows installs itself to that partition. Not sure if this works in anything newer than XP though.

[byalexandr]

I think how it happened is that the drive already has a partition on it that's C and when I make a second partition using unallocated space in the installer, it becomes D, and Windows installs itself to that partition. Not sure if this works in anything newer than XP though.

I don't think so, normally Windows 10 requires you to install it on one partition. Maybe you can change that with some partitioning magic in the installer.