Applications dont work from USB harddisk

[Guest Aristide de la Tanne]

On an external USB disk with 500 GB and FAT32, I have some

applications that can run without installation, e.g. Media Player

Classic. When I attach the disk to my laptop (with XP on NTFS), MPC

runs fine. When I attach it to my desktop PC (XP on NTFS as well), MPC

does not run, access to the USB disk "hangs", its LED turns red. On

the3 other hand, a copy of MPC on the internal HDD works perfectly.

What might be the problem with USB?

Regards, Aristide

[Guest AlmostBob]

Re: Applications dont work from USB harddisk

 

Security settings, somewhere, may have disabled running programs from

removable drives

 

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"Aristide de la Tanne" <aristide1993@yahoo.fr> wrote in message

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> On an external USB disk with 500 GB and FAT32, I have some

> applications that can run without installation, e.g. Media Player

> Classic. When I attach the disk to my laptop (with XP on NTFS), MPC

> runs fine. When I attach it to my desktop PC (XP on NTFS as well), MPC

> does not run, access to the USB disk "hangs", its LED turns red. On

> the3 other hand, a copy of MPC on the internal HDD works perfectly.

> What might be the problem with USB?

> Regards, Aristide

[Guest BillW50]

Re: Applications dont work from USB harddisk

 

In news:%23MUQJCZ6IHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,

AlmostBob typed on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:13:54 -0300:

> Security settings, somewhere, may have disabled running programs from

> removable drives

> _

>

> "Aristide de la Tanne" <aristide1993@yahoo.fr> wrote in message

> news:24133ece-b5ac-403e-b72c-344b122c4f10@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...

>> On an external USB disk with 500 GB and FAT32, I have some

>> applications that can run without installation, e.g. Media Player

>> Classic. When I attach the disk to my laptop (with XP on NTFS), MPC

>> runs fine. When I attach it to my desktop PC (XP on NTFS as well),

>> MPC does not run, access to the USB disk "hangs", its LED turns red.

>> On the3 other hand, a copy of MPC on the internal HDD works

>> perfectly. What might be the problem with USB?

>> Regards, Aristide

 

That might work, but what works IMHO better is using the "Mount in the

following empty NTFS folder" option.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889

 

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Windows XP Home SP2

[Guest Aristide de la Tanne]

Re: Applications dont work from USB harddisk

 

On 19 Jul., 17:19, "BillW50" <Bill...@aol.kom> wrote:

> Innews:%23MUQJCZ6IHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,

> AlmostBob typed on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:13:54 -0300:

>

> > Security settings, somewhere, may have disabled running programs from

> > removable drives

> > _

>

> > "Aristide de la Tanne" <aristide1...@yahoo.fr> wrote in message

> >news:24133ece-b5ac-403e-b72c-344b122c4f10@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...

> >> On an external USB disk with 500 GB and FAT32, I have some

> >> applications that can run without installation, e.g. Media Player

> >> Classic. When I attach the disk to my laptop (with XP on NTFS), MPC

> >> runs fine. When I attach it to my desktop PC (XP on NTFS as well),

> >> MPC does not run, access to the USB disk "hangs", its LED turns red.

> >> On the3 other hand, a copy of MPC on the internal HDD works

> >> perfectly. What might be the problem with USB?

> >> Regards, Aristide

>

> That might work, but what works IMHO better is using the "Mount in the

> following empty NTFS folder" option.

>

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889

>

> --

> Bill

> Asus EEE PC 4GB SSD 2GB SODIMM 16GB SDHC

> Windows XP Home SP2

 

 

Bob and Bill, thanks for your valuable hints.

 

Since from the critical PC, even defrag was stuck after a minute, I

had to consider different causes. I deplore that I had not done before

and posted to early, sorry. It turned out that the connection cable

from the intermediate USB switch to the partucular PC in question is

much longer than the one to the laptop. Obviously it is too long or

too weak. Replacement solved all shortcomings.

 

Interesting to learn that copying hundreds of GB of video files was

not obstructed, and playing the videos in a player installed on the

desktop PC was not either. Only running the player on the external

drive itself was blocked.

 

Regards, Aristide