Having FS on another hard drive; How?

[Lionheart]

Hey guys,


Could anyone direct me to a tutorial on how I would install FS into a seperate hard drive?

I have Windows XP and the drive will be external.

What would be awesome is if I could run it from the older HD that everything is still in, but I have no idea how to get it all to run in the main drive. I believe I have to have all the Registries, etc. Can they be simply transferred to the new drive? (The older drive 'exterior' is vista, so it may have different registry types...)


Bill

[harleyman]

Bill...That is easy...

On the drive you want FS on open that drive and place a folder there called FS9 or FSX your sim / game


Then install the Sim.but be care ful,on the install screen there is an option *MORE* (I think Its called that)

Select that and there you browse your install to the Harddrive and folder you placed there


Done...That easy...For the rest of the installs amd addons most will find it on that drive,Some will not so you just need to be carefull as to its browser selected..........Rebrowse it if it seems to be lost


Merry Christmas

[harleyman]

Oh...Just saw about the Vista ...You will need to reinstall all your FS9 stuff as you could backup the regestry and put it on your new rig..But I do not think XP regestry and Vista will work together....

[Lionheart]

Thanks Mason.

I'll try that with the install. From there, I can simply copy/paste/migrate all the files to the HD from the old HD via the new 'main' HD... (musical hard drives, lol... )


Oh what extents we go to for the love of flying....... Even 'virtual' flying....




Bill

[harleyman]

Hey Bill...You might want to move all your files first and get the External all clean except for your FS9 stuff...Then go ahead and reformat the drive to really have it clean for your new FS9 install...Just removing deleting files still leaves traces and clutter behind....It won't hurt,but a format is better...

[Butcherbird17]

Is the drive that fs9 is installed on an IDE or Sata? If its a IDE drive just change the jumper on it to Slave and plug it in, if its an older Sata drive it may have jumpers (newer sata drives do NOT have jumpers) if not you can just plug and go. Then once XP installs the drivers for it, just browse to your fs9 install and then create a new desktop shortcut. To get the registry entry back just get the FS9 registry tool (at most of the big sites). My install of fs9 is about 3 years old and has been moved a number of times to newer and older drives in between and still works great.

Joe

[harleyman]

Is the drive that fs9 is installed on an IDE or Sata? If its a IDE drive just change the jumper on it to Slave and plug it in, if its an older Sata drive it may have jumpers (newer sata drives do NOT have jumpers) if not you can just plug and go. Then once XP installs the drivers for it, just browse to your fs9 install and then create a new desktop shortcut. To get the registry entry back just get the FS9 registry tool (at most of the big sites). My install of fs9 is about 3 years old and has been moved a number of times to newer and older drives in between and still works great.

Joe

But will that work comming from a Vista machine onto a XP machine? I thought not.........

Its a terabyte drive so its probably sata ..I assume....I have been known to be wrong though...LOL

[Lionheart]

It is a SATA T-Drive. I just hooked it up and I guess its not formatted, arrghh.. Afraid to put the disc in the new computer. Might reformat every single disc around, lol... I'll have to try something else.

In the mean time, I am installing it to a 320 Gig HD with SATA. I can experiment.

Thanks for the info on the FS9 registry tool. I didnt know about that. Hopefully I can just plug and fly!


Bill

[GT182]

Just look for F drive in your My Computer/Explore if you're putting it on a SATA drive that you've added. Should be the same for an external drive too. Tho it might be a different letter depending on the amount of drives you have installed, whether they be internal of external.

I added a Program Files folder to my second drive to add my games to. The rest of the drive is storage... and it works ok so far.

[Butcherbird17]

Unlike fsX, fs9 will work if you move it from one OS to another. My install started its life on a XP drive, then I moved it to my Vista install, now its back on my XP drive, yet I can still use it in Vista or XP. My fs9 is so heavly modded that I didn't want to lose it so I just move it around. I also use the registry tool to put the fs9 registry into my vista install because I hardly ever boot into XP and if I want to install a payware addon that needs to see the registry entry it finds it with no problems.

Joe

[Lionheart]

Thanks guys,




Bill

[harleyman]

Ya just learn something new every day here........

[NCGent]

Bill

If the drive that FS is on in your old rig is still good just take it out and buy an external drive enclosure and install the drive in that. I did that on a drive that had my COD folders on it and it's still kickin. The one I have is a RocketFish brand enclosure, comes with all you need to get it working.

Chris

[Lionheart]

Bill

If the drive that FS is on in your old rig is still good just take it out and buy an external drive enclosure and install the drive in that. I did that on a drive that had my COD folders on it and it's still kickin. The one I have is a RocketFish brand enclosure, comes with all you need to get it working.

Chris

Thanks Chris,

I have a few HD's, six to be precise, lol.. I am presently trying to locate a tower that can hold them (externally). If not, I will have docs. They have cool 'quick docks' now that you just plug a HD into and rock and roll. Pretty nice, and open, so they dont heat up as quick.


Bill

[Lionheart]

Unlike fsX, fs9 will work if you move it from one OS to another. My install started its life on a XP drive, then I moved it to my Vista install, now its back on my XP drive, yet I can still use it in Vista or XP. My fs9 is so heavly modded that I didn't want to lose it so I just move it around. I also use the registry tool to put the fs9 registry into my vista install because I hardly ever boot into XP and if I want to install a payware addon that needs to see the registry entry it finds it with no problems.

Joe

Thanks Joe,

That did the trick! I cant believe it, lolol....

I have a temporary HD exterior link cable/power set going, and hooked up my HD to the main computer through USB, did the FSTweak FS9 registry tool, and Voila! Took a flight, every thing is proper.




A thousand thanks Sir!



Now for FSX, lol... eeeks!

Bill