I use the disk management tool that comes with windows to do this on my laptop. I created an OS partition where I have windows installed to, then I have a Data partition where I keep my programs (I use portable so the settings save), and anything else I save to computer.
You can use something like returnil (can't think of other freeware names) to protect just the OS partition from changes then run off the data partition. Or protect both like I do.
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