Lightroom 5 do not recognise catalog from external HDD

I am using Lightroom 5 now. In the earlier version, I was able to create catalog & save them in external HDD. Similarly I could open any catalog from external HDD with the lrcat file extension.
However, in the current version, it does not allow me to create catalog nor retrieve catalog from external HDD.
This means that I have to either transfer all the raw files to the HDD from the external HDD and then create the catalog in the laptop. After finishing all the editing, then copy and transfer everything back to the external HDD.
I cannot imagine if whenever I have to edit something, I have to keep doing transfer between the laptop HDD & external HDD.
Any experts can advise?

I am using LR 5.2 and I do not have this problem. My Raw files are on an external hard drive and my catalog together with its previews and Smart Previews and the CR Cache folder are all on a USB 3.0, 64 GB memory stick. The only thing on the laptop's (Windows 7) internal drive is the LR application. I turn on the external only when importing or exporting/printing and editing is done through the Smart Previews. This setup works smooth as silk for me, so I think you also should be able to work from the external.
When you write "it does not allow me to create catalog nor retrieve catalog from external HDD," what do you mean? If you go to File/New Catalog, does the external not appear on the system navigation window that opens? If you go to File/Open Catalog, does the external not appear on the system navigation window that opens? If, with LR closed, you use Explorer or Finder to go to an .lrcat file on the external and double-click it, does this launch LR?

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