Cpl Ledanek Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 @ work we got this business slimline pc...has a dvd drive, but no apps to play dvd movies...is there a USB U3 app that can be downloaded so we can watch dvd movies thru the USB U3? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannik Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 It's a stretch, but this may work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted December 8, 2007 Author Share Posted December 8, 2007 DANG! I could have brought some DVDs already That's ok, I'm doing a 16-hr shift come next weekend...hmm...now which one should I bring, Tears of the Sun or Die Hard 4? Thanks as always! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 +1 VLC I'd go with Tears of the Sun, good movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted December 8, 2007 Author Share Posted December 8, 2007 so far so good, it installed fine on my USB drive. I think I might just move my favorite movies into a external HD (USB) and bring it to work. I'll see if the slimpc will pick up the external HD and then use VLCportbl to play the files...skipping the DVD-ROM altogether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamakazi Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 VLC is essentially the greatest thing ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 VLC portable works like a charm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 VLC portable works on the DVD drive....now the problem: I ripped a few movies in a SATA drive that I haven't used since last year. So I ripped the movies into the SATA HD via SATA connection. But when I installed the SATA to my Antec MX-100 USB enclosure, as an external HD, the PC recognizes it as a USB Mass storage...but does not show in My Computer as a drive. Which means I cannot access my movies from this external HD. Am I missing a step here? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Dunno if this will help but try going into the control panel, then computer management, then disk management, and see if it shows up there. Maybe it just hasn't been assigned a drive letter? Dunno... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 Dunno if this will help but try going into the control panel, then computer management, then disk management, and see if it shows up there. Maybe it just hasn't been assigned a drive letter? Dunno... I assigned the HD when it was attached via SATA cables on my desktop...but when I placed it inside the USB enclosure, it would only be read as a USB SATA bridge storage. ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 I went to Disk Management and the disk is read as: "Dynamic" and "Foreign"....my option is to "Convert to Basic Disk", which will reformat my drive and lose data... ...and I'm at work for 16hrs...me, laptop, and my external enclosure/SATA drive in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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