Importing, copyping raw files as DNG files - copy to location choice, and more ???

First:
When I copy raw files as DNG files, the right hand pane shows where the copies will be placed.  (I use Windows 7) I do not have much of a choice, and cannot set a default.  The default choice is "My Pictures" on the C: drive.  I have an Solid State Drive, SSD, and do NOT store my photos on that small, 256Gb drive.  I store my images on an internal hard drive. 
All i want to do is set the default "Copy To" location to where I store my images.  I would like to copy them to the original folder, in a separate folder (for example, LR DNG).  Instead, I have to open the SSD, find the files, and copy them to my preferred location.  This is very irritating.
Second:
Worst, it appears that the Copy function puts the copied images into multiple folders.  I had 11 images from raw files that were put into three separate folders.  That seems quite silly to me.  It causes me to do more work opening the folders and copying them to the root folder.  That is very irritating.   What is going on here?
can these two issues be resolved? Thanks, in advance.

My apologies.  I thought it would open the selected folder and reveal the images to be converted.  That would be the most obvious thing to do, but it does not behave that way.  I made a couple folders with test images, CR2 and RW2, and the converter converted them. 
Again, the navigation was funky, inconvenient, but it works.  i complain because we pay a lot of money to use Adobe products, they have huge resources, and  they seem to release products that have obvious flaws, especially navigation.  Maybe they just hate Microsoft.  Sorry for the rant.
Thanks for getting me to use DNG converter. 

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