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USB hard drive... is it ok to run your gaming and frontend off it?
bkenobi:
--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on November 23, 2010, 10:32:19 pm ---what happens if you change it to another pc and your external HDDs designator is different than the one you used to program it?
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Depends on the FE, but some won't work. GameEx, for instance, has registry entries that the author has indicated won't allow you to switch (easily anyway) to a different PC. It's not a copy protection thing, it's basically due to how Windows works. If the FE doesn't have registry entries, I'm sure it would work great!
WhereEaglesDare:
but lets say that your drive is drive E on one PC and drive G on another... what then?
garnerb350:
--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on November 24, 2010, 07:29:27 am ---but lets say that your drive is drive E on one PC and drive G on another... what then?
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I know where Eagles getting at... (i think)
My TB was listed as Drive D for a while and then when i switched PCs...it was then H... I had to go in and redirect my locations of everything as per my emulators and frontend...(mame snaps,ctrlr,artwork etc) Pain in the arse...Happened everytime I switched to different PCs...but then I found out (did a search) and there is a feature where you can assign drive letters to different drives...via control panel through Windows... I assigned the TBdrive from H back to D.... and it runs ok...as long as locations are correctly listed...
severdhed:
if your drive letter changes, right click on my computer,click manage. choose Disk management. find your external drive, right click and choose change drive letter
Havok:
--- Quote from: severdhed on November 24, 2010, 10:59:19 am ---if your drive letter changes, right click on my computer,click manage. choose Disk management. find your external drive, right click and choose change drive letter
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That's it - of course you may need to shuffle disk drive letters around to get what you want, which can break other software.
AtomicFE uses relative paths, so would be unaffected by a drive letter change...