Hi guys,I've tried on the hardware forum/s, but still waiting for a reply, so I thought I'd try here (since there's are lot of traffic around lately lol). My laptop has recently packed up due to a power jack issue and haven't got the money to replace it at the mo (hopefully before the NGX is released). Would/is it possible to just remove the hard-drive and plug it into my partners laptop to access my files or would there be driver etc issues? Thanks in advance folks :)

Hi Alaister, You don't want to do that. There would be tons of driver and chipset issues to say the least and even then, your drive would have it's registry all out of whack. I'm also surprised how many people I see simming on laptops and macbooks. I couldn't imagine such a thing since my settings and addons would be lucky to get 5fps on the best one on the forseeable market. I have a couple laptops and neither are bad, but still would never install FS on it personally.I hope you get it fixed, but if the bill is too high I would put my coin in a desktop.Back to your question,,, If all you want to do is access files such as liveries and stuff, that would be fine, but again if you use the hard drive as the master on another comp, your going to regret it. So not as C:\, set as slave both in jumpers and in the bios.

Cheers thanks for the prompt reply, I thought there would be issues if I did it. My laptop was good for FS9 but not so great for FSX so haven't flown in months :-( but all I was wanting was access to liveries and sceneries etc to back them upI have been looking into a new desktop system with FSX and any future sims in mind so will have to push for some over time lol

I think that access to the hard drive just to back-up your files is possible, at least I did it once with a desktop drive. But it couldn´t be used as a system drive on the other laptop. You would have to connect your drive remotely (like using an external drive adapter) and access it from the other laptop.

I actually stupidly bought an IDE adapter to go from the normal pin out of a IDE cable to the pin out of a laptop hard drive a couple months ago to back up my sisters laptop hard drive... the stupid part was my motherboard doesn't have a single IDE cable/socket :( Yes, you can do like you want with getting the files off and even using it as a backup. I was under the impression that you were going to get the laptop repaired and then put that drive back in it and expect to just proceed on course. That too is possible but was just warning about the problems you would see if you hooked it up as a C:\ drive to another comp.On another note now that Felipe brought it up. There are external USB to IDE adapters for laptop drives. There are a small selection available on the market but even them will need you to set the jumpers accordingly. When in doubt set it to cable select, but for the USB adapters you might need to set it to slave to be seen from what I've read.

Hi Alaister, You don't want to do that. There would be tons of driver and chipset issues to say the least and even then, your drive would have it's registry all out of whack. I'm also surprised how many people I see simming on laptops and macbooks. I couldn't imagine such a thing since my settings and addons would be lucky to get 5fps on the best one on the forseeable market. I have a couple laptops and neither are bad, but still would never install FS on it personally.I hope you get it fixed, but if the bill is too high I would put my coin in a desktop.Back to your question,,, If all you want to do is access files such as liveries and stuff, that would be fine, but again if you use the hard drive as the master on another comp, your going to regret it. So not as C:\, set as slave both in jumpers and in the bios.

I'm using a laptop now and fsx runs just fine on it. I am only using a laptop though because I am deployed, I would never dream of bringing my desktop over here.

Cheers guys for the responses, I'll look into maybe getting a cable seems a practical solution.