Perhaps a silly question.

My flight PC has died a slow agonizing death. Got slower and slower over the last week, now DEAD.

Thinking of transferring the c: to the new PC as D:

Is this feasible? I know P3D licence will kick off although I have 2 installs left. PMDG and most others are cool provided you can provide the original licence key.

Could this work or would I be better to bight the bullet and do a complete new install.

Cheers

8 hours ago, whisky said:

Perhaps a silly question.

My flight PC has died a slow agonizing death. Got slower and slower over the last week, now DEAD.

Thinking of transferring the c: to the new PC as D:

Is this feasible? I know P3D licence will kick off although I have 2 installs left. PMDG and most others are cool provided you can provide the original licence key.

Could this work or would I be better to bight the bullet and do a complete new install.

Cheers

For the licence explain to LM P3d ... if the site is available..

For the transfer check with ease Us partition master there is a free version

https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html?srsltid=AfmBOopuy3FIJ5UWNOhFME0Ki5LwlqqZZHIuPcHWRMzwfoQCRpqACTwE

4 hours ago, Emile said:

For the licence explain to LM P3d ... if the site is available..

For the transfer check with ease Us partition master there is a free version

https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html?srsltid=AfmBOopuy3FIJ5UWNOhFME0Ki5LwlqqZZHIuPcHWRMzwfoQCRpqACTwE

Not sure why I would need a partition manager. The current C: would become D:

I know there are issues with most installs default to C: I guess I have nothing to lose, if it doesn't work I can just install again on c:

Incidently, I paid a "Techie" $350 to service and repair this PC. Subsequently it's performance deteriorated over the last 2 weeks, running slower and slower until it died. I used Fortect repair tool which over the last few days found increasing number of errors, then "death".

4 hours ago, Emile said:

For the licence explain to LM P3d ... if the site is available..

For the transfer check with ease Us partition master there is a free version

https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html?srsltid=AfmBOopuy3FIJ5UWNOhFME0Ki5LwlqqZZHIuPcHWRMzwfoQCRpqACTwE

The problem is going to be that the UUID (your actual username according to Windows) is going to be different.

And whether you had disk encryption enabled.

It’s also possible you could boot from the old C drive in the new computer.

all in all, it is indeed better to bite the bullet and do a fresh install of everything. Unless you’ve got data on that old c drive that isn’t also somewhere else.

FWIW, paying someone to service your computer is utterly without warranty, as it should be.

there’s so many completely old computers and drives and such out there that could fail at any moment for any reason that it’d be unreasonable to expect otherwise.