Hi:

 

I upgraded to WIN 7 and while setting up partitions, accidentally deleted my entire FSX installation that was in its own partition. So, there should be nothing left from the old install.

 

I set up a new partition for the drive dedicated to FSX and installed the program. When I try to run FSX Gold it stops with a screen that says

 

"Flight Simulator requires at least one each of the following to run: an airport, a VOR, an NDB, and a waypoint. There is currently no waypoints in the dataset. Flight Simulator will now exit."

 

I did a repair install, nothing changed.

 

And, when I looked at the scenery.cfg in C:\Program Data\Microsoft\FSX, its top lines refer to FS9

([General]

Title=FS9 World Scenery

Description=FS9 Scenery Data

 

What is going on?

 

Thanks for your help.

 

mGN

Hi

 

When you upgraded to Windows 7 your registry was updated, therefore your old registry settings remain and paths still point to the previous installation. The installer can get “confused”, so the repair install won't work.

 

Try this to attempt to repair the registry.

Registry repair tool if you have installed more than 1 time and have troubles

From Phil Taylor's blog

 

Run a registry cleaner, then before doing the reinstall make sure you rename or move all references to FSX folders in:

C:\Program Data

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\

 

If you can't access the last two folders because of your settings, try this:

(copy paste each of the following to the address bar)

 

%localappdata%\microsoft

and

%appdata%\microsoft

 

look for the FSX folders in each path.

 

Hope this helps

Ramón:

 

Thank you so much. I followed your directions to the letter and FSX loaded all the db material. Now loading the Accel.

 

Again, thank you so much! Spot on!

 

mGN