Ok , my main install of fsx has gone rubbish , after nearly 2 years of good performance, it was installed on my 1 tb Samsung 7200 spin drive that I have 3 partitions on, 1 for win 7 64 bit main drive with all my other flight games on, another with xp for all my old programs, photo , vid editing , music etc & 3 rd for fsx , fsx drive having win 7 64 bit op & 430 gig.

I have now installed a 600 gig velociraptor, so to the question cos there seems to be different opinions, do I leave my win 7 fsx op system as is & install to my raptor from there, or do I do a new op system install on the raptor & then install fsx outside of the c/ program files.thanks for any replies.

Leave Windows where it is.

 

But install FSX onto the Raptor. Keep it on a separate drive to windows and background programs.

Ok thanks for the reply, that's what I had heard was the best install option , but someone on the flightsim forum recommended installing everything including op system on the raptor.

Can you please tell me the correct way to set up my new raptor drive to install fsx onto from my other drive , ie do I format & put a file system onto it or , as a blank content drive , thanks

Yes use disk management in administrative tools folder to give it a drive letter and set it up

Thanks for replying to me taipan, sorry but I may be a bit dense in this area , after I connected my vrap , I did go into admin tools & assign a drive letter & a quick format , & then let it stay as a simple content drive, that was what I was unsure about , cos there are various options one being ntfs file system , or something like that , I have never done anything like this before so I'm not sure what I'm doing , sorry.

Ahh yes NTFS is correct, if you have Windows 7 that is what you need.

 

Is that the question?

Yes , thanks .

It is best to give a new hard drive a full NTFS format, not a quick format. If there is a weak spot on the disk, it will mark it as bad and not let anything write to that sector.

 

Dave

Ok , thanks Dave I will make sure it does a full format.