FSX on an external hard drive.......

[Guest IZ0JUB]

Hi everyone,

 

My old Windows XP machine was chugging along with its 150 GB hard drive and I noticed only the other day that it was getting near to full with all my home made scenery.

 

So I decided to simple copy and paste the FSX across to my external USB Verbatim hard drive. Then I opened this up and found the fsx.exe folder and put a link on the desk top.

 

OK I now have a new FSX icon on the desk top so holding my breath I pressed the icon and FSX sprung into action.

 

I tested it out and noticed that the flights load faster and flying the stock Cessna 172 is very smooth at 20 FPS and the quality is spot on.

 

So far so good, now to remove the FSX on the C drive to free up more space. So you have to go to the C drive and look for Microsoft Games. This is the ONLY folder you should right click on and delete. In Windows XP the files are so large that the rubbish bin cannot handle them so XP asks is it OK to permanently delete all. 

 

At this point I took a deep breath and hit delete ALL.

 

OK back to the desk top and delete the old short cut and then open FSX with the new icon pointing to the external drive.

 

Yes it works perfectly OK.

 

I now have a virtually empty C drive and Windows XP running a lot faster.

 

Hope this helps others.