I had some problems with FSX recently, and had to remove and reinstall it using the original disks.After installing FSX and SP1 & 2, I checked my hardrive capacity and found it was about 5-6 gigsless than before.What can I do to reclaim the lost memory on my hardrive?Thanks

I had some problems with FSX recently, and had to remove and reinstall it using the original disks.After installing FSX and SP1 & 2, I checked my hardrive capacity and found it was about 5-6 gigsless than before.What can I do to reclaim the lost memory on my hardrive?Thanks

RaptorWhen software installs on a computer it doesn't always do it in a manner that it occupies the smallest space on your HDD, so in the case of FSX, you may need to defrag the Hard Drive (HDD) with a third party defragmenter. (You also needed to make sure that you removed all traces of your earlier installationn and I would have defragged after unistalling the last version.)I use a freebie called Auslogics Disk Defrag and there are commercial versions such as O&O, PD, DiskTrix, etc that are much better than the one built into Windows. BTW FYI there is no "memory" as such on a hard drive, but by defragging you will hopefully be recovering "lost space" caused probably by the installation of FSX. How big is this FSX drive anyway? For example, if it is more than about 60% full you may see some performance loss.Good LuckPeterH

Thanks,I have defragged my hardrive and gained very little space.I have about 25 gigs left on my 160 gig drive.I have everything reinstalled including GEX, and some addonaircraft. It's just a shame that it takes so long to redo everythingbecause FSX is not able to fully uninstall itself by using the originaldisks.Is there any way to find and remove redundant FSX files to gain morespace on my hardrive without removing everything and looking forall traces of FSX and then reinstalling everything again?

RaptorI'm not sure what you mean by "redundant FSX files" so I don't how many you could actually remove. GEX does put some intallation files in the root drive in 'Flight One Software' which may be able to be removed but you may need to post on that (GEX) forum to find which ones. IMHO that HDD is far too small and is too full to run FSX really well. The fuller a HDD becomes the less efficient and stable it becomes.Sorry that I can't give a more positive answer.RegardsPeterH

Thanks,I have defragged my hardrive and gained very little space.I have about 25 gigs left on my 160 gig drive.I have everything reinstalled including GEX, and some addonaircraft. It's just a shame that it takes so long to redo everythingbecause FSX is not able to fully uninstall itself by using the originaldisks.Is there any way to find and remove redundant FSX files to gain morespace on my hardrive without removing everything and looking forall traces of FSX and then reinstalling everything again?

Hi RaptorI had a similar problem last time I reinstalled FSX, but I lost even more space. Could not find it again where ever I looked ;)What I did was to move all folders that I wanted to keep over to another disk/partition, then I formatted the disk (you need to have fsx installed on its own disk/partition for this to work) When formatted I just moved all the folders back and suddenly I'd got all my gig's back :)Don't know if this will help you, but it's worth a try.Regards Audun

RaptorI'm not sure what you mean by "redundant FSX files" so I don't how many you could actually remove. GEX does put some intallation files in the root drive in 'Flight One Software' which may be able to be removed but you may need to post on that (GEX) forum to find which ones. IMHO that HDD is far too small and is too full to run FSX really well. The fuller a HDD becomes the less efficient and stable it becomes.Sorry that I can't give a more positive answer.RegardsPeterH

Peter is right about GEX. You have the option to backup your default scenery files before installing the GEX files. GEX places a backup in your C: directory. Just look for GEX-Backup. You can move these files to a DVD or delete them if you do not plan on returning to the default scenery/texture files. This will save you considerable space. There are no redundant or duplicate FSX files.Best regards,Jim

Thanks guys,I was able to regain 40 gigs of disk space by deleting some old unused program files ect.So I think I'm good to go for a while now.