Installation and run from SD card

Hello,

I am looking forward on purchasing Matlab in the near future for personal use. I have a Dell laptop model I7378-3000SLV-PUS running windows 10 64 bit and have ran out of storage space on my SSD. For this reason I am planning on installing a SD card, but I'm skeptical if installation of Matlab on the SD card and running Matlab off the SD card will work.

If possible, would you specify what changes I would have to do for a successful installation on the SD card?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Rik]

As long as you don't suddenly remove the drive, it should be all OK. I can't think of any reason why it would conflict with the license, but that is a matter for Mathworks to decide. (if you want to be sure, you can contact support with the Contact Us button at the top of the page.)

Some programs don't like installation to a removable device. The internet is full of people asking how to put Dropbox on their SD card. The method I found to work best is mounting the drive to a folder on your main disk, similar to how a symlink would work. (This sounds Linux, but is actually Windows.)

Should this be the case for Matlab as well, you can use the step by step tutorial I used for Dropbox.

1. Control panel --> Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Storage --> Disk Management
2. Right click on the flash/thumb drive, select Change Drive Letter and Paths…
3. Select add, then select Mount in the following empty NTFS folder, browse to your C:, select New Folder…
4. Name the folder "DB Mount", click OK, click OK, click OK. Close Computer Management.
5. You can now access your flash/thumb drive through its removable storage location (drive letter) or through the mounted location (C: DB Mount). Dropbox requires a local drive (the mounted volume).

[DWag]

This is excellent, thank you! I want to note that for anyone who tries this, my installation used about 20 Gb of hard drive before transferring it to the mounted SD card space.