I downloaded FSX  on My WD" My Book" External Hard Drive. It has 1 TB of space. After it was downloaded, I preceded to download REX. Half way through, I got a pop up stating that the drive was almost full. I don't want to mess with FSX, it's there to stay. Is it possible to delete the portion of REX that is already there, open up the partition to make the drive bigger? Then download REX again? Below is what I have :

 

   os©870gb free of 910 GB

 

   Recovery ( J )  4.52 GB free of 31.9 GB > This is the drive FSX is on.

 

   Recovery ( D )  2.41 GB free of 19.3 GB > Partition Recovery ( don't want to mess with that )

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I went to documents in © drive and clicked on REX to send to WD. I also clicked on FSX in © drive and also clicked send to WD. For each separate folder I got this pop up ;

 

                                                         1 Interrupted Action

 

        There is not enough space on recovery. You need an additional 8.05 GB to copy these files.

 

                                                                 Recovery

 

                                                           Space free 639MB

 

                                                           Total size 31.9 GB

 

         Right now I have FSX in my WD external Drive. I thought for now I would back them in the same partition and later delete the existing FSX to pick up more space. For now my biggest problem is getting   REX in WD, assuming it goes in the same partition as FSX.

Still getting that same pop up. As usual , I'm lost.

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I am very confused as to what can be accomplished here.  The OP has only one HDD and that's a 1TB WD My Book External HD.  He has partitioned the one drive with the OS on one drive, FSX on a recovery drive, and another system recovery drive.  I suspect Drive C is where the OS is located.  Drive J is where FSX is located, and Drive D is where the system recovery partition is located.  Certainly a strange setup if I ever saw one.  No E, F, G, H, or I Drives.  So me thinks he has to go into Disk Management and reset his disk configurations.  For some reason, they are indicating he does not have enough room to add files.  This is totally out of my expertise so I'm calling on the disk setup experts to come together and figure out this problem so the OP can fly.  Thanks.

 

Best regards,

Jim

A few things here:

 

1. Your external drive, unless it is your boot drive, does not need an OS installed.

 

2. At this point I would save anything from the drive that you absolutely need and then start over with a re-format and repartitioning. Yes, partitions can now be re-sized on the fly, but you need to know what you are doing.

 

3. Are you REALLY booting from an external drive?

Yes, he has no internal HDD.  It shows that in his MyPC specs.  Just the external drive and that is his boot drive.

 

Thanks for your help Jim!

 

Best regards,

Jim

Then he needs to use the Disk Management utility in Windows to adjust the sizes of the partitions. You do need to know what you are doing though.

 

Or the other option would be to uninstall FSX and and move everything to the C partition.

Given the info. that you two have provided, I decided to recruit my son in law who programs computers for a large company here in Cincinnati. Last night he  remotly took over my PC and cleared things up. I 'm now running both FSX and REX and very happy to say everything is 100 %. Everything is on my WD external hard drive 1 TB ( J ). Thank you firehawk44 and JSkorna for everything. jetsmell

Thanks for telling us how you resolved your problem.  Glad you were able to get your son-in-law to fix the problem and you're up and running.  Hopefully it will not give you any more issues and you can enjoy FSX.

 

Best regards,

Jim