Hi, Need some advise, the Hard drive running my operating system is about to die, chkdisk and defrags no longer work and it takes a number of attempts to boot the machine up. Here is my setup - one drive partitioned E:\,C:\ E:\ WinXP 32bit installed C:\ FS9 with 8 years worth of add-ons and tweaks. The plan is to purchase a brand new drive, install winXP 64 bit and again partition it E:\ & C:\ Install FS9 new onto C:\ hook up my old drive as a slave and copy my entire FS9 folders including everything from E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\FS9 I still have all my activation keys from my payware. Will I have to do anything to the registry? or anythnig I am missing? Cheers

I don't think copying the files will work at all. You will likely need to reinstall FS2004 and all your addons that have install programs. You could prolly copy the Aircraft folder from the old drive to the new drive but you might run into some add ons that won't work without reinstall. I had to do this myself. Copying the Aircraft folder allowed me to keep my planes that I downloaded but some aircraft (Abacus, ESDG, FSD-International to name a few) didn't work right - panels didn't have gauges, textures were missing, etc. So I reinstalled those payware aircraft. Also, I had to reinstall my mesh, FSPassengers, Radar Contact and FSUIPC and Squwakbox. Good luck with your new drive!

Thanks mate, I found a great post here on Avsim, looks like it won't be problem and I can finally have windows using all my memory for my other apps.http://forum.avsim.net/topic/340076-migrating-fs9-from-xp-32bit-to-windows-7-64bit/

Hi Rob. As long as you are sure the hard drive where FS9 currently resides is still viable, here is how I have and would go about your task. New drive and OS installed + drivers etc. Clean new install of FS9 and update to FS9.1. Clean install all payware add on stuff that you want in the new install. That insures all payware and FS9 are properly registered. Next you can pick through your old install and replace / overwrite as necessary to rebuild your new FS9.1 install to what you had before. Some examples; in the new FS9 install, delete the aircraft folder and move your 'old' aircraft folder into the new install. Same with,.......addon scenery, (be sure to copy scenery.cfg from your old "Flight Simulator 9"), Texture, Modules, Scenery, gauges, effects, any folder where you have made or placed any modifications and as you mentioned, E:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\FS9. Don't forget ' Flight Simulator Files ' in your My Documents location so you can keep your logged flying time if you use it. I hope this helps and that I have not missed anything. Best regards,Mel