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Win7 and FSX on Same HD or Not?


GrizRod1

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I've just recently built a computer to handle FSX and PMDG's 777. My main drive is a 240GB Samsung 840 SSD with Win7 installed. I've been having a hassle with FSX's SP1 and SP2, got them loaded after FSX but then found I had not done it correctly using a guide from the FSX forum.

I thought maybe this was the reason my PGDG 777 aircraft were not showing as aircraft choices when trying to start a first flight.. Tried to uninstall and reinstall and could not get the two SP's installed, only one, so I realized my mistake of not geting the FSX Gold and now have one.

I am now thinking of putting FSX and 777 on a new Seagate Barracuda 7,200rpm 1TB HD. I never really messed with two HD's before so here's maybe, a stupid question. I assume that I have to load Win7 on my second 1TB drive with the FSX? But I read somewhere that it was better to have FSX only on a separate drive. Or should I just load everything on the Seagate 1TB? I know it will load slower but once that's done the performance should be close to an SSD I've read on here.

I am happy with my computer, i5-3570K that will run at 4.5Ghz when I crank it up, with 8GB of Ram,SSD is fast, video is little weak with Nvidia 550TI, bought just to get the computer up and running a year ago. Will replace with a Nvidia 760 or 770, not sure I'll be happy with the 760, another question for hardware?

Definitely a lot of computer guru's on here, I'm definitely not one of them. I've been making a lot of adjustments to my computer from the guides posted on the forum. Looks like a good forum, I've looked for answers on here, but did not come across what I was looking for,  so I hope I'm not being redundent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This has come up before... many times over..

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/437324-can-i-install-fsx-on-my-c-drive/

 

The basics:

 

You can run it all on the SSD, if you have enough space..

 

If you believe you are going to run tight on space.. leave win7 on the SSD,

and install FSX on the 1TB drive.  You can copy the whole FSX folder over,

rename the original folder as a backup, and start FSX off the hard drive.

Then use the Flight1 FSX registry tool to update the registry for the new location..

 

Or, cleaner, install FSX onto the harddrive from scratch..

 

Either way, no Win7 on the harddrive, it stays where it presently is.

Bert

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Some more ideas to ponder on this:


Posted Yesterday, 12:34 PM

mrlip, on 21 Mar 2014 - 11:24 AM, said:snapback.png


Do a regular HD drive and a SSD play nicely together or is better to stick with 2 of the same type?

 

Sure, they play together buy I'm not sure what you are really asking.  If you decide to go the way of the conventional wisdom of putting OS on one drive and sim on another, you'll need to decide which is most important to have each on.   As I will maintain there is little to no downside of putting OS & sim on the same larger SSD.  And bonus:  you get fastest possible OS & sim-related file I/O performance over dedicating an SSD to one purpose and and HDD to the other, where you will sacrifice drive performance for either sim or OS.  I can easily afford OS on one SSD, and sims on another, but as I say, it's unnecessary and really just complicates matters.   If you happen to have an old HDD or will plan on picking up a new one, I would still maintain if FSX (or whatever sim) is the primary purpose for the box then put OS & sim(s) on one larger fast SSD on a SATA III connector, and keep it squeaky clean w/ nothing else other than maybe a few tools you'll want like temp monitoring software, FRAPS, etc, and do a whole other Win install on the HDD for everything but your sim(s).   This allows you to keep the sim environment squeaky lean, no antivirus software needed, no nothing to clutter the environment and bonus, makes for really simple clone or backups so that when you have it fully loaded you can backup for instant restore w/o having to clone two drives.  I like cloning over imaging so that in the event of failure it's plug and play until a replacement SSD arrives.  I can recommend Paragon OS to SSD Migrator software--cheap, simple, effective.  BTW, I have one 500gb Samsung 840 SSD, and have a complete FSX install w/ all of the PMDG birds, multiple FTX global & regions, mesh, tons of stuff, plus a complete Prepar3D install w/ FTXG, FTX AU, mesh, 3 add-on birds, etc and the drive isn't yet half full.  I will likely uninstall FSX unless P3D stalls in its development.

 

Noel

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Thanks Donor, I'm not used working with two HD's and I had a brand new Barracuda 7200 rpm as an extra drive to back up my 240GB Samsung 830 and I installed FSX on it. I read that scenery loads a bit slower then an SSD, but once it's loaded I have not noticed any problems. If I install something like REX at a later date I might consider a separate SSD for FSX and my PMDG 777.

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