[Instructions] Playing WoW via Ipods or large external hard drives.

[The Mars Volta]

This is actually quite simple for anyone who knows how to generally run a computer. I'm posting this in response to someone saying "How do I play WoW at school."

Well, a lot of schools, or I'd say a good 99% of schools block almost anything from getting downloaded / installed onto computers. Your way around this is actually not installing anything, but running it off of your Ipod or external hard drive device.

It's quite simple:

1) Plug in your external hard drive into its firewire or usb slot (firewire is faster, BUT, most school computers don't have firewire slots due to their old age and the new firewire technology)
2) Give your computer a moment to connect with the new hardware. After maybe 20 seconds, open up My Computer, or go to C:\ where your hard drive or Ipod should be. Open up your external hard drive and let it load.
3) Now, take your ENTIRE World of Warcraft folder (or any other game, say, Age of Empires) and copy and paste it inside of the external hard drive. After the Burning Crusade, WoW takes ~9 GB of space, so make sure your hard drive has the space for it.
4) Let it load up into the external hard drive. It really doesn't take long for a computer to transfer 9 GB of files, so it should take around 10-20 minutes depending.
5) Once thats done, disconnect your hard drive device, and hook it up to any computer you want to play WoW on.

Instructions for opening it up:

It's really simple, just like loading a CD or any game that doesn't automatically install itself, go to My Computer and open up the hard drive, click on the folder and play it from there.

Question:
Well, I did all the steps, I saw it on my Ipod, but when I got to school, I couldn't find the hard drive.

Answer:
My school, and I'd assume most schools remove My Computer and C:\ from access. The way I did it was by RIGHT CLICKING on the school computers desktop, and go to --> New --> New Folder --> 'Name it whatever'. Open the folder and at the top will be a URL spot. Click on the down arrow, and it SHOULD SHOW your external hard drive, saying "Mike's Hard Drive" or "Jordan's Ipod." Open that up and it will show the files.

Remember, don't add any files to the computer, because most likely it isn't a computer that you need to put files on. This is a great way to install WoW on to any computer, simply copy the files FROM the Ipod on to another computer.

And please,

Feel free to play at work.

Just don't get fired.

Anyways, any questions, ask me, it's really simple.

[dogking]

Great work. I have a question though, if I can't access WOW sites from work, how will I be able to connect to the actual game with this method?

[The Mars Volta]

By 'wow sites not working', do you mean external sites like:
www.worldofwacraft.com

Thats usually blocked by your work or school etc. places on websites.
To bypass almost any site on a restricted LAN, go to:
www.stealth-ip.com
or
www.liteproxy.net
(credits to WTF LOL) http://www.mmowned.com/forums/genera...ring-pics.html

for that.

[svloco]

Or you could just go to class, like normal.

[Nugma]

Or you could just go to class, like normal.

;-)

[The Mars Volta]

Or you could just go to class, like normal.

When you have all honors / AP courses, and you just so happen to get stuck with Technology as your other course, and you have a 98 in the class, I think playing WoW is acceptable.

[bassman]

nice work lol a bunch of nerds at my school do this but on a lil chip thing not an ipod that plugs into the usb port. I am a fan of wow but im not that desperate to play it at school.

[joeshmoe123456]

very nice i think i may try it

[Bridude]

nice, my computer lab is being renovated, forget that, ill try it after... nice 1 lol...

[shadowdie]

omg AWSOME...so long boring ict lessons!!!xD

[ComputerUser]

So you basically gave computer illiterate people instructions on how to use a USB ipod/hard drive and told them how to copy/paste...

Negative Rep :P

[The Mars Volta]

Considering a lot of people don't know how to do that, let alone how to work URL's. And the fact that most people don't know Ipod's work as eternal hard drive,

you're an ass.


Someone with 1 rep is trying to give me negative rep? Rofl

[ComputerUser]

Yes i have 1 rep and could care less if i had zero.

If you own an IPOD/USB drive and don't know how to use it you're a moron and don't deserve to know how to copy WoW to it...

You didn't tell them how to make a shortcut or which file then need to click on to RUN WoW. :P

[dave_maltby]

I went thru this before but + rep, one thing I would note though is that you can run it DIRECTLY from the ipod, hard drive etc, I do this & have no problems, getting around a proxy server is a different issue all together, try looking up socks proxys or something & see if you can find a stand alone socks proxy, this would stream all the data & get you around your schools/works internal proxy.

as I said in previous posts I am a systems admin & this is how a few of the kids at my school do it

Yes i have 1 rep and could care less if i had zero.

If you own an IPOD/USB drive and don't know how to use it you're a moron and don't deserve to know how to copy WoW to it...

You didn't tell them how to make a shortcut or which file then need to click on to RUN WoW. :P

Sorry for double post but I would like 2 say computer user, you are infact a grade A tit, I commend your parents for scraping the bottom of the gene pool to come up with such a pathetic prick like yourself

everyone else, sorry for flaming

Yes i have 1 rep and could care less if i had zero.

If you own an IPOD/USB drive and don't know how to use it you're a moron and don't deserve to know how to copy WoW to it...

You didn't tell them how to make a shortcut or which file then need to click on to RUN WoW. :P

Sorry for double post but I would like 2 say computer user, you are infact a grade A tit, I commend your parents for scraping the bottom of the gene pool to come up with such a pathetic prick like yourself

everyone else, sorry for flaming

[The Mars Volta]

Seriously, I think the moral of this entire forum is either post something useful or don't post at all. My post was intended for people who don't know what they're doing, otherwise I don't think most people would post here.

If everyone knew how to MAKE A TRAINER WITH (INSERT HACK HERE), then NO ONE WOULD be posting trainers with that hack.

Most people don't know that Ipods can be used for other things, which is a large sum of my post too.