Changing Hard disk Letter through Disk Manament

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  1. Posts : 87
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       #11

    True just wanted to make sure ;-) with 250gb worth of payware and having my Flight simulator just the way i want it Re-installing woulnt have been the best option for me :)
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       #12

    What kind of files does the FS produce and what type of files does it depend on? Im not familiar with it.
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  3. Posts : 87
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       #13

    Flight simulator is just a simulator kinda like a game i guess but most refer to it as a simulator rather then a game. Most files are BGL's and Texture files for specific Land Class and Sceneries. I know some aircrafts have Registry Entries within the Registry to assure windows that the Aircraft's where purchased. But it all points to the F drive and some PDF Licence files wich point to C Drive

    All BGL's are loaded within the simulator itself it searches for scenery within a Txt file labled Scenery.cfg to load up the scenery from what i know everything is loaded from the F Drive the only thing is the registry has some files linking the C to F for payware Scenery and Payware Aircrafts but considering J will soon become F those registry entries will still be pointing to F Drive once the letter is changed
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  4. Posts : 87
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       #14

    Just to confirm Re assigning a letter to an exiting partition doesn't require reformatting the partition?
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       #15

    Garciamk4 said:
    Just to confirm Re assigning a letter to an exiting partition doesn't require reformatting the partition?
    No, reassigning a drive letter will not require you to reformat. It will break things that required that drive letter but that is easily fixed by changing it back.
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  6. Posts : 87
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       #16

    ok so if FS(Flight Simulator is in J drive) Changing J to F should Re-link the registries to Flight simulator so as long as the Registry points to F?

    In other Words the computer doesnt know F use to be J changed to F as long as the path in those registries are pointing to F

    so anything that requires the drive letter will automatically be fixed if J becomes F

    The idea is to transfer Flight Simulator from F to J then change the old F Letter to a different letter to then change J to F so flight simulator can run on its own drive rather then the old extended F partition
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       #17

    Garciamk4 said:
    ok so if FS(Flight Simulator is in J drive) Changing J to F should Re-link the registries to Flight simulator so as long as the Registry points to F?

    In other Words the computer doesnt know F use to be J changed to F as long as the path in those registries are pointing to F
    Its complicated but basically.. Files that point to F: will play nice with the new J: drive that you will rename F:. Problem is, if some of these files on the current F: drive stay on J: and have registry pointers that still map to F:, they will be broken.
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  8. Posts : 87
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       #18

    Got it just make sure that J is F and doesnt stay as J lol Thanks :) There will be no files on the old F partitoned drive all filles will be transfered since its just the simulator so the old F partition will be completly Empty as it has nothing but the simulator

    Just to be clear Everything on the old F will be transferred to J wich will become F
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  9. Posts : 87
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       #19

    All done and tested everything worked thanks guys for all your help:)
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       #20

    Glad it worked out for you, happy flying :)
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