Did you know you can create a symlink in Windows 7/8,10, etc just like in Linux?  If you don't know what that is, imagine a directory somewhere which is actually displaying the contents of another directory, maybe on an entirely different hard drive.

The command needs to be run from the command line, and looks like this:

MKLINK [options] link target
Example:  MKLINK /J data "C:\Dropbox\MySQL Folder\data"