Move P3D V5 to another drive....Do I.....

[Ed_S_Pilot 227]

Can i move P3D V5H2 "complete" to another drive or do i have to do a UN-install then complete re-install onto the other drive?

 

Thanks

Edited August 9, 2020 by Ed_S_Pilot

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

Depends a little bit on what you are trying to accomplish.. if you want to move it to a bigger drive, you could copy everything over and rename the new drive to the old drive letter.. that would work.

In a more complex scenario, uninstalling and reinstalling may indeed be the simpler way to go..

[Ed_S_Pilot 227]

1 minute ago, Bert Pieke said:

Depends a little bit on what you are trying to accomplish.. if you want to move it to a bigger drive, you could copy everything over and rename the new drive to the old drive letter.. that would work.

In a more complex scenario, uninstalling and reinstalling may indeed be the simpler way to go..

Thanks Bert,

 

I was looking to move all P3D to a larger drive. I'm not up to much on computer stuff. I think since i dont have a bunch of add ons and such. Just uninstalling and doing a reinstall to the bigger drive would be the better way to go, Because for sure, I would mess something up and be in the same boat anyways.... LOL

 

Thanks....

[pgde 571]

I think that is a good way to go Ed -- there are a number of folders created in your root drive that would need to be edited if the drive letter changes. An uninstall and reinstall would be the safest way to go IMHO.

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

1 minute ago, Ed_S_Pilot said:

Thanks Bert,

 

I was looking to move all P3D to a larger drive. I'm not up to much on computer stuff. I think since i dont have a bunch of add ons and such. Just uninstalling and doing a reinstall to the bigger drive would be the better way to go, Because for sure, I would mess something up and be in the same boat anyways.... LOL

 

Thanks....

If you just want to move to a larger drive, you can do that easily enough.. assuming that you do not have P3D installed on your C drive currently (!)  If it is on the C drive, then yes, uninstall, reinstall is the way to go.

If it is currently on your E drive (just to pick a letter), here is what you do:

1. Install a new larger drive into your PC

2. It will be given a new drive letter by your system, lets say it is G.

3. Copy everything from your E drive onto your new G drive

4. Rename your E drive to Z

5. Rename your G drive to E

6. Start up P3D and make sure it is all working

7. If all is well, you can rename the Z drive to G and delete anything on that drive that you do need anymore

8. All done.

[Ed_S_Pilot 227]

6 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

If you just want to move to a larger drive, you can do that easily enough.. assuming that you do not have P3D installed on your C drive currently (!)  If it is on the C drive, then yes, uninstall, reinstall is the way to go.

If it is currently on your E drive (just to pick a letter), here is what you do:

1. Install a new larger drive into your PC

2. It will be given a new drive letter by your system, lets say it is G.

3. Copy everything from your E drive onto your new G drive

4. Rename your E drive to Z

5. Rename your G drive to E

6. Start up P3D and make sure it is all working

7. If all is well, you can rename the Z drive to G and delete anything on that drive that you do need anymore

8. All done.

Unfortunately,  Yes, It's on the C drive drive, Thank you everyone for the constant enlightenment with this kinda of stuff.

 

Much appreciated!

 

Ed

[G-RFRY 1,708]

If it`s your C drive cloning is the way to go, download a free cloning software, i cloned Samsung 1TB ssd to replace my 500gb C drive you must clone all everything on the C drive let it run and it will shut down your PC, I then remove my old C drive mounted on my MB M.2 Slot installed the new 1TB C drive and all was working ok. took less than 30mins i now have a spare M.2 Drive which i will use on my soon to be new motherboard ASUS Z490 APEX which can take more M.2 drives.

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Samsung free cloning software.

[jbee1a 12]

Windows 10 supports symbolic links. No need to re-install anything. Just move your FS installation to its new location then make a link to it from the old location.

Search for examples of the "mklink" command. Practice using the command on a test directory first.

[G-RFRY 1,708]

I never put flight sim on my C Windows drive.