Well, it's a long title, but it's all in there!

 

I have a second HD on my PC which is currently completely empty (it had a X-Plane 10 install on for a few hours yesterday but that didn't last, bah! meh!).

 

Is there any way of 'moving' my existing FSX installation (which is in the Program Files (x86) folder of my regular main C:\ Hard Drive), from the C:\ drive to this new D:\ drive ?

 

I gather it will be more complex than just doing a 'cut' and 'paste' from the C:\Program Files (x86)\Flight Simulator X folder to the new D:/ drive, as I guess the registry would need to know about the move?

 

Any advice on whether this is possible would be really appreciated!

 

If it's not possible, can anyone give a view, whether it is worth it (performance increase wise) investing the 12 hours in uninstalling my current FSX+addons install, to re-install everything onto the second HD?

 

Thanks again.

Yes you can. You have two options:

 

1 ) Move all the stuff inside your FSX folder to the new drive. Then mount the entire drive into the old (empty) FSX folder. This would be the option to use when you intend to use the entire second drive for FSX only.

http://technet.micro...e/gg309170.aspx

 

2 ) Move your FSX folder to the new drive and then use mklink to create a link from the old location to the new one.

http://technet.micro...e/gg309170.aspx

 

Haven't tried option 2, but option 1 works definitely.

Many thanks for the help Tom;

 

The 2nd drive is indeed purely for FSX use, to I will probably try your option 1 suggestion.

 

Much appreciated.

I tried option two about a week ago, everything is working fine so far (many add-ons too). Here's a good explanation, which includes the use of the "robocopy" Win7 command-line utility.

 

http://www.cwassall.co.uk/blog/2009/9/14/creating-junctions-windows/