At the risk of getting into a debate on semantics, I agree with Dennis; nothing has changed and I have mine installed on my E-drive which is an external HD.
Naturally, because the register is on the C Drive the Millennia entries are in that register and point to E:/Legacy/. To be perfectly clear that is where the program is and the data is also on the E drive. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ *New* Insert Pictures Into your Web Pages - Blogs http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ > Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:22:50 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Trying to move Legacy from C drive to new E drive > > If I'm reading this right, your 'external' hard-drive was actually a > second internal HD. I believe the reason that it won't install to an > external hard-drive is that there's no registry there. It's a portable > device like a flash-drive, just bigger. > ----- > JL > JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists > http://www.jgen.ws/jlog.html > > Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:40:54 -0700, JLB wrote: >> >> >>> but the installation of Legacy must be on your C-drive. >>> >> >> Unless something has changed, this isn't true. I just looked at my old >> PC and I have an old version of Legacy installed on the E: drive (2nd >> physical internal HD, 1st physical HD has C: and D: partitions). >> >> And I don't see why Legacy couldn't be installed (and work) on an >> external HD (never tried it). But don't expect it to work if you unplug >> that external drive from that PC and move it to another PC. >> _________________________________________________________________ Make a mini you and download it into Windows Live Messenger http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
