March 31, 201313 yr A couple of days ago I replaced my main hard drive with a new one. In the process I did a clone using the Seagate Disk Wizard. it was a bit of a hassle when Microsoft starting asking me to me to re-activate Windows 7, FSX, etc., but fixing that was the easy part. The hard part was when I launched FSX and all of the software that I had purchased from Flight1 started complaining. I tried their online activation, no luck. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software, no luck. The next step will be contacting Flight1 for support, but I am not at all thrilled, by what IIMHO is a less than user friendly system. While Flight1 is a first class company and their return policy is top notch, this experience has turned me off to buying products that utilize their wrapper. Ernie
March 31, 201313 yr The Flight1 Wrapper is as close to an industry standard as there is and widely considered as the best anti-piracy method in use for FS stuff. For all the software knows, the new hard drive is on a different persons computer so yeah, you have to confirm that you paid for it. Such is life. regards, Joe The best gift you can give your children is your time.
March 31, 201313 yr Think their wrappers are annoying setup should go steam route with their people upgrade computers often with fsx often as want improve their immersion experience.
March 31, 201313 yr What you need to do is uninstall and redownload the orignal the programs and unwrap them to your harddrive. You can't use backup installs already activated/unwrapped. It's not overly complicated and I've reinstalled a gazillion times. I personally love Flight1's system as they don't nickel and dime you into buying extended downloads or allow you XXX number of downloads.
March 31, 201313 yr Been there, done that. I now maintain written instructions on how to deal with this. I have so much stuff, from so many different vendors, with differing ways and means to reinstall that if I don't write things down I can't possibly remember. Bryan Wallis aka "fltsimguy" Maple Bay, British Columbia Near CAM3
March 31, 201313 yr Author Thanks Vincent, That's what I finally did with UT2, but haven't tried the rest yet. In retrospect I overreacted a bit, but I still would have preferred the experience to be more like re-activating Windows 7, FSX, etc. Get the message, click on the "activate" link. Wait a second or two and it's done without fuss or need to reinstall. Ernie
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