January 11, 20233 yr My FS2020 drive (boot drive) needs more space for FS2020. Can I Clone C to larger F drive and remove FS2020 from C drive? Then run FS2020 from larger F drive. If so what steps do I need to do this. Other than change the FSCFG file on the F drive to point to F. Thanks to all who replay. Bill McCracken
January 11, 20233 yr Easiest would be just to move the folder containing Community and Official to another drive. Those folders contain the bulk of the program. Then start MSFS and point it to the new directory when it asks for the download directory. It will only check if everything is there and start normally. That's it. Edited January 11, 20233 yr by crimplene
January 12, 20233 yr Do you have the Steam or MS Store version? With Steam, you can just define a new location and it will all be moved over for you. "That's what" - She
January 12, 20233 yr I used the free version of Macrium Reflect to clone my MSFS drive when I moved it from a 1TB to a 2TB drive. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
January 12, 20233 yr 2 hours ago, regis9 said: I used the free version of Macrium Reflect to clone my MSFS drive when I moved it from a 1TB to a 2TB drive. Great program,flawless Wayne such Asus Hero Z690, Gigabyte Aorus Master 5080, I914900K, Kraken 360 AIO CPU Cooled, 96 GIGS Corsair DDR5, 32 Inch 4K by 3
January 12, 20233 yr I just the did the same thing. I was running out of space on my only SSD, and bought a second 2TB one. I moved the Community and Official folders to the new drive, and updated the paths when loading up MSFS the next time (I also had to manually update my community folder path in a bunch of apps, Orbx, Contrail, FBW installer etc the next time I ran them). I didn't use any fancy software to move the folders (I just copied them from the old drive to the new drive) and once I saw everything worked, I deleted the originals from the C drive. Edited January 12, 20233 yr by Redge
January 14, 20233 yr Author Thanks to all who replied. This worked. Used the move fs2020 package from C to F. Changed the FS config on C to point to F. Ran FS2020 as usual. It started to reinstall FS2020 on F. (Long time) Started FS2020 as usual. Loaded fine. Twenty some content did not install. Took care of that with Content Manager. It looks like this process also removed FS2020 from my C drive. Picked up 554GB free on C. There may be other ways to accomplish this, This worked for me.
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