Question about Hard Drives

[Room112 27]

• You can use ImgBurn to create ISOs of the two CDs on your desktop PC.

Move those ISOs to the external drive. 

Install mounting software on the notebook (I prefer Daemon Tools).

Connect the external drive to notebook.

Mount CD1 ISO using software and install as normal.

[dkb194 1]

Thanks Room112. I'll try that.

[dkb194 1]

I seem to still be stumped. I made the two ISO's and then used Daemon to mount both of the ISO's. Double clicking the CD1 ISO started 10 minutes of installation until it asked for Disk 2 and there is no way to point it to the 2nd ISO. Do I need to copy everything from the two CD's into on folder and then ISO and Mount that one folder.

[Room112 27]

I seem to still be stumped. I made the two ISO's and then used Daemon to mount both of the ISO's. Double clicking the CD1 ISO started 10 minutes of installation until it asked for Disk 2 and there is no way to point it to the 2nd ISO. Do I need to copy everything from the two CD's into on folder and then ISO and Mount that one folder.

 

Mount the ISOs one at a time. If you mount both simultaneously, Daemon will create one drive letter for each ISO. FSX will only look for the second CD on the drive letter that the first CD was mounted on. Instead, simply mount the second CD ISO on to the drive that the frist CD was mounted to. FSX will continue the installation from there.

 

I had to reinstall FSX using this method last weekend so I know it will work. Good luck!!!