Guest Aristide de la Tanne Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 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 Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 Re: Applications dont work from USB harddisk Security settings, somewhere, may have disabled running programs from removable drives -- Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/newsinfo/collateral.aspx?CID=40387 Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors and webmasters _ "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
Guest BillW50 Posted July 19, 2008 Posted July 19, 2008 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 -- Bill Asus EEE PC 4GB SSD 2GB SODIMM 16GB SDHC Windows XP Home SP2
Guest Aristide de la Tanne Posted July 20, 2008 Posted July 20, 2008 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
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