Moving Lightroom Library & database

I have been using Lightroom 1.0 on my laptop, with the library & ldrb file held on an external hard drive. The external drive was set as drive I on the laptop.
I now want to use that library on my pc, have added the external HD to pc & configed as drive I. When trying to open that library from Lightroom on the pc I am getting the following error message:
Runtime Error:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Lightroom\Lightroom.exe
Abnormal Program Error
If I open an existing Lightroom library on the pc it opens OK.
Advice on how to be able to use the Library on the external hard drive on the pc would be apperciated.
Both Laptop & pc Are using WinXP Pro.
Many thanks
Tom

Tom - sorry to read that you are still having difficulties. As I said previously, this is exactly the same setup that I have and with me it runs perfectly. I would possibly suggest that you plug-in your EHD to the PC but DO NOT open LR. Then via explorer locate the EHD's lrdb file. By double-clicking on this LR should open - if not then it could be that the file is corrupt. I can't think of anything else to suggest - sorry.
Edit: Should just add that I can't help feeling that your problem is somehow related to you having re-assigned the drive letter as otherwise our setup is the same as previously mentioned.

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