[dukevyner]

i have a program that i need to run a driver update the problem is that the changes need to be made on my slave hard drive... i can't boot the hard drive because i get a memory dump when i boot because the drive needs to be updated.... i figured i could change which drive the program runs in with a batch or something but i don't know how i would go about doing it... any help would be great

[Mark1956]

It is not all that clear from your opening post what the problem is.

What driver do you need to update and what is the program you are referring to.

You can only run a program from the drive it was installed on, in order to run it from another drive you would have to re-install it on that drive.

[dukevyner]

it was a sound card driver... the manufacturer of my pc provided me with a version that was incompatible with windows 7 and gave me a blue screen memory dump on boot luckily i had a slave... that had xp installed on it and i was hoping to run the windows 7 compatible update from there but i needed to make the changes on the (new) slave drive(cause i switched them) with windows 7... i couldn't do this from safe mode... cause the installer is disabled.. finally i gave up and re installed windows 7 and installed the correct driver to resolve the issue.. . I thank you for your attempt at helping though

[Elvandil]

All programs run in memory and not on a drive. It doesn't matter where the program is started from because they all go to the same place. You can't update a non-running system. A non-running system doesn't even have a CurrentControlSet branch in its registry which is where all installations would need to be made.

You still use IDE drives with Windows 7?

[dukevyner]

Originally Posted by Elvandil

You still use IDE drives with Windows 7?

sadly yes, my computer is quite old.. I was given damage computer and by damaged i mean... it either had a fried motherboard or a broken power supply... but nether the less i removed and tested the hard drive(which the previous owner had installed 7 on) after determining that it worked and was not it's self damaged then checked the RAM witch was also in working condition and fit my old computer so i installed them both and decided to use the hard drive with windows 7 (as i now have enough RAM) long story i installed the drivers for xp and not for 7, put its fixed now