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Q163427: Magic School Bus: Installing to a Removable Drive

Article: Q163427
Product(s): Microsoft Home Kids Products
Version(s): WINDOWS:1.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbsetup kbusage
Last Modified: 08-NOV-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Scholastic's Magic School Bus series: Explores the Human Body for Windows, version 1.0 
- Scholastic's Magic School Bus series: Explores Inside the Earth for Windows, version 1.0 
- Scholastic's Magic School Bus series: Explores in the Age of Dinosaurs for Windows, version 1.0 
- Scholastic's Magic School Bus series: Explores the Ocean for Windows, version 1.0 
- Scholastic's Magic School Bus series: Explores the Solar System for Windows, version 1.0 
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SUMMARY
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The Magic School Bus (MSB) titles are not designed to run from a removable
drive. The program may appear to install properly to a removable drive, but you
receive the following message when you attempt to start the program:

  Program must reside on your hard drive.

MORE INFORMATION
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MSB Human Body and MSB Solar System will launch from an installation on a
removable drive, but MSB Ocean, MSB Earth, and MSB Dinosaurs will not. These
programs were designed to run from an installation to a physical hard drive with
the compact disc inserted in the CD-ROM drive. These programs were not designed
to run from any other media source.

It is possible to set your hard drive to be "removeable". To determine whether
this option is selected and/or to select it, do the following:

1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.

2. Double-click the System icon in Control Panel.

3. On the Device Manager tab, click the plus (+) sign next to Disk Drives.

4. Select the item that describes your hard disk (i.e., GENERIC IDE DISK
  TYPE38), and then click the Properties button.

5. Click the Settings tab and verify that the Removable check box is not
  selected.

6. Click OK. Restart the computer when prompted.

Additional query words: kids mskids msb msbhb msbss frizz kbmm multimedia multi-media multi media msbdino msbdinos msbearth msbhuman msbsolar body external

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Keywords          : kbsetup kbusage 
Technology        : kbHomeProdSearch kbZNotKeyword kbKidsSearch kbScholasticHuman kbScholasticOcean kbScholasticSolar kbScholasticDinosaurs kbScholasticEarth kbMSBSearch
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Issue type        : kbprb

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