I have a question, I'm currently running FS9 On my External 75 GB Hard Drive, Everything was Pretty much Installed into this Hard Drive. My problem is i have so many Addons in FS2004 That my hard drive is pretty Much full I have about 800MB Out of 75GB left.

 

Id like to Transfer the FS9 Directory From the External into my Internal Drive 1TB My main question is I have all my Payware Aircrafts and Scenery. Are the Registry entries for tthe payware add-ons Set to the external drive path,will moving the FS9 Directory from the External drive into the internal mess with these registry entries?

Yes it will mess with your registry entries. What they are looking for is the drive name. If you were to add a dedicated FS hard drive/SSD you could do what your describing. Simply by renaming your dedicated internal drive to whatever your external drive letter is/was a renaming the external drive after transferring. Its the reason I have always had separate HD/SDD for FSX, P3D and FS2004. Makes for upgrading drives a fairly simple process.

 

I suppose you could make another partition on your internal primary drive and do the same. That's out of my league.

Ok good, thanks for the quick reply, My Internal Drive is already Partitioned into 2 partitions, C:/ 500GB And D:/500GB so its pretty much Divided in half, so If i were to Rename the Second Partition F:/ And trasfer the FS9 Directory into this second Partition i should be good to go?

Move everything over first, then I don't know if it'll work but you could try the Flight1 Registry Repair Tool available at Flight1's website. It doesn't seem to work if I link it directly, but if you Google "FS9 registry fix" it's the first link. You're looking for the 4th file from the top

Move everything over first, then I don't know if it'll work but you could try the Flight1 Registry Repair Tool available at Flight1's website. It doesn't seem to work if I link it directly, but if you Google "FS9 registry fix" it's the first link. You're looking for the 4th file from the top

Thanks for the Reply cyanide72 But my main concern is the registry entries for the Payware Aircraft such as the PMDG'S, I know after registering these aircraft's it places a registry entry in the registry.

Well i ended up giving the Extended Partition a different letter changed from D: to F: then changed the External from F: to D: now i have more room to add more stuff to the sim ;-D hopefully i dint screw up the registries ti the payware addons i had installed lol. Then again if the payware addons registry are looking for the F: drive i should be ok

Even though the original poster solved the problem, this issue comes up a lot and I thought that it would be helpful to point out another option, which is to create a symbolic link. For recent versions of Windows (Vista, 7 and 8) there is a built-in OS command mklink:

 

http://www.sevenforums.com/customization/149054-symbolic-folder-linking.html

 

For earlier versions, there is a small piece of freeware that does the same thing:

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

 

The procedure is simple. first you copy the FS folder to a new location. Then you rename the original FS folder to something else. The name does not matter. Then you create the folder junction using the original FS folder name as the source and the new location as the destination. For NTFS formatted devices, the process is invisible to the OS and requires no registry changes, etc. The folder junction persists forever, unless you purposely delete it.