running emacs on a usb disk

[Bill Kranec]

Hello,

I am a kind of new emacs user, and I have been experimenting with trying to run 
emacs standalone from a USB flash drive on Windows XP.  Is it possible to make 
emacs load my .emacs file from a relative path on the USB disk, rather than 
looking in Windows' PATH or registry settings?  Right now emacs looks for 
everything in C:\.  I have tried reading through the user manual and some 
online resources, but I didn't see anything that I thought directly applied to 
this.

Thanks for any help you can give, I really appreciate it.

Bill