Hello,Any H/D experts, I hope can give me some info, just upgraded from win xp to win 7 64, I havetwo 500 Gb h/d, the C drive is windows only, and the D drive is FSX and addons only, anywaythe C drive has a simple layout and type is basic, the File system is NTFS, however the D drive is Simple in Layout and Dynamic in Type with NTFS as well, I just need to know if I can go ahead and install FSX on my D drive.Hope the above makes some senseThanks for any advice

Hello,Any H/D experts, I hope can give me some info, just upgraded from win xp to win 7 64, I havetwo 500 Gb h/d, the C drive is windows only, and the D drive is FSX and addons only, anywaythe C drive has a simple layout and type is basic, the File system is NTFS, however the D drive is Simple in Layout and Dynamic in Type with NTFS as well, I just need to know if I can go ahead and install FSX on my D drive.Hope the above makes some senseThanks for any advice

Since you have two physical disks, I just want to be sure how you created your C & D volumes. In Win7 volumes can be either be Basic or Dynamic types. In addition, Dynamic-type volumes can be either have Simple or Spanned layouts; whereas all Basic-type volumes can only be Simple.Typically, you want to use Dynamic-type volumes to create spanned disks to create a virtual bigger disk.In your case, there really shouldn't be any issues with installing FSX on the D volume. However, there are a few things to keep in mind: 1) If you ever want to change the Dynamic disk back to a Basic disk, you will lose all of the data on the disk unless you back it up first. 2) If you later add additional physical hard drives, you can extend still extend the D volume (if that is your requirement) without having to reformat it. Note that when you extend the volume over multiple disks it becomes a Spanned volume.

Since you have two physical disks, I just want to be sure how you created your C & D volumes. In Win7 volumes can be either be Basic or Dynamic types. In addition, Dynamic-type volumes can be either have Simple or Spanned layouts; whereas all Basic-type volumes can only be Simple.Typically, you want to use Dynamic-type volumes to create spanned disks to create a virtual bigger disk.In your case, there really shouldn't be any issues with installing FSX on the D volume. However, there are a few things to keep in mind: 1) If you ever want to change the Dynamic disk back to a Basic disk, you will lose all of the data on the disk unless you back it up first. 2) If you later add additional physical hard drives, you can extend still extend the D volume (if that is your requirement) without having to reformat it. Note that when you extend the volume over multiple disks it becomes a Spanned volume.

Thanks for your informative reply, I went ahead and installed FSX and it runs quite well, much better than in win xp 32, the drive was reformated with 64K allocationparameter and of course NTFS. So far so good.Thanks