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todd · 11-24-2005, 12:47 PM

I bought a case (Mad Dog Megavault USB 2.0/Firewire) and am out of town with my hard drive, on my mothers computer (fresh Windows XP install, 1.6ghz, 1 gig RAM, nVidia MX400 64m eg).

The hard drive I brought is the master drive from my computer at home, which includes a full Windows XP install and a bunch of programs and games that I was hoping to be able to run from this (or any other) computer. However, I have not been successful in running a single program off of this drive. I figured since the drive has a full OS on it alerady, that all the necessary files would still be accessible by the programs and games.

The only problem I can see is that the drive is now labeled as E: rather than the original C:. I tried taking the drive out of the USB case and plugging it in as a slave drive on the IDE cable, but had no better results. I even tried plugging it in as the master, but the computer wouldn't boot up.

Is there any possible way to run these programs and games off of the hard drive? Or am I out of luck? Thanks a lot!

11-24-2005, 12:47 PM	#10 (permalink)
todd Addict Location: Chicago	I bought a case (Mad Dog Megavault USB 2.0/Firewire) and am out of town with my hard drive, on my mothers computer (fresh Windows XP install, 1.6ghz, 1 gig RAM, nVidia MX400 64m eg). The hard drive I brought is the master drive from my computer at home, which includes a full Windows XP install and a bunch of programs and games that I was hoping to be able to run from this (or any other) computer. However, I have not been successful in running a single program off of this drive. I figured since the drive has a full OS on it alerady, that all the necessary files would still be accessible by the programs and games. The only problem I can see is that the drive is now labeled as E: rather than the original C:. I tried taking the drive out of the USB case and plugging it in as a slave drive on the IDE cable, but had no better results. I even tried plugging it in as the master, but the computer wouldn't boot up. Is there any possible way to run these programs and games off of the hard drive? Or am I out of luck? Thanks a lot! Last edited by todd; 11-24-2005 at 12:51 PM..