Migrating FSX to new drive (SSD)

[dart15]

There are times when you (that's me) feel a complete twerp! One such time befell me this past weekend when I endeavoured (unsuccessfully) to install Orbx England. Confounded by my repeated attempts and by the lack of any apparent reason for failure and lack of response to my increasingly intensifying invective I finally resorted to the support forum and received a solitory and salutory reply. Had I checked that it was installing to the FSX folder? Of course I had - what sort of idiot question was that.....? Had I made sure there was enough room on the hard drive? Well, OF COURSE i had made......oh! Err? Embarrassed silence followed!

That SSD that I had installed to run my OS and FSX (in a seperate partition) when i built my PC about 18 months ago had slowly but surely been gobbled up by successive add-ons so that by the time I attempted to install dear old Blighty I was trying, metaphorically speaking, to squeeze the entire realm into the equivalent of Rutland! (England's smallest county for the great unwashed).

Sorry about the ramble but to finally get to the point I will be installing another SSD exclusively for FSX and wonder whether it would be best to reinstall FSX or whether I could simply 'move' the existing FSX drive to the new one? If the latter is possible, how is that best done in order to preserve links to other files/other drives?

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (dart15 @ Feb 18 2013,12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

There are times when you (that's me) feel a complete twerp! One such time befell me this past weekend when I endeavoured (unsuccessfully) to install Orbx England. Confounded by my repeated attempts and by the lack of any apparent reason for failure and lack of response to my increasingly intensifying invective I finally resorted to the support forum and received a solitory and salutory reply. Had I checked that it was installing to the FSX folder? Of course I had - what sort of idiot question was that.....? Had I made sure there was enough room on the hard drive? Well, OF COURSE i had made......oh! Err? Embarrassed silence followed!

That SSD that I had installed to run my OS and FSX (in a seperate partition) when i built my PC about 18 months ago had slowly but surely been gobbled up by successive add-ons so that by the time I attempted to install dear old Blighty I was trying, metaphorically speaking, to squeeze the entire realm into the equivalent of Rutland! (England's smallest county for the great unwashed).

Sorry about the ramble but to finally get to the point I will be installing another SSD exclusively for FSX and wonder whether it would be best to reinstall FSX or whether I could simply 'move' the existing FSX drive to the new one? If the latter is possible, how is that best done in order to preserve links to other files/other drives?

I have my OPS on a SSD drive and I have got my FSX installed on a Western Digital Raptor X SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 250GB
If you have got or can get a good backup program I use Acronis True Image do a full backup of your FSX then restore it on your new SSD or HDD should work fine save all the reinstall again and takes about 10 to 15 minutes to back it up and about the same to restore it again.

[dart15]

QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Feb 18 2013,4:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have my OPS on a SSD drive and I have got my FSX installed on a Western Digital Raptor X SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 250GB
If you have got or can get a good backup program I use Acronis True Image do a full backup of your FSX then restore it on your new SSD or HDD should work fine save all the reinstall again and takes about 10 to 15 minutes to back it up and about the same to restore it again.

Thanks Doug - and it wont matter that it is restored to a different drive as far as locating the fsx.cfg and any other links are required?

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (dart15 @ Feb 19 2013,2:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks Doug - and it wont matter that it is restored to a different drive as far as locating the fsx.cfg and any other links are required?

It picks it up on the new drive as it is a clone of the original drive providing that you disable the original drive otherwise you will have 2 HDDs with the same program on them.
recovering to a new HDD from a full backup is like cloning it to the new HDD.