FSX on slave hard drive

[jnigeld]

Cheers all! I have 2 internal IDE cable hard drives in my system. The hard drive with my windows operating system is the master drive and my FSX currently runs from this hard drive. The second IDE hard drive is the slave drive. It works just fine and has a lot more space. I'm planning to uninstall and delete all traces of FSX from my master IDE hard drive and then install my new FSX Gold Edition on the larger space IDE slave drive. Will FSX run from this second IDE slave hard drive, or does FSX have to be on the same hard drive as the operating system? Many thanks for replies!

[Bass]

Welcome on SimV jnigeld

Now, this is what most of us do. Installing sim/games on another drive. It dont need to be on the os drive, and it will run better away from the os!

Ofcourse it depends if/of the differences between the ide drives.

[jnigeld]

Thanks BASS! Both of my internal IDE hard drives run at the same speed. Both have cooling fans on them. I do know that external USB hard drives are NOT the way to go with FSX, as USB transfer speeds are much slower than internal IDE drives.

[Bass]

Thats ok.
Just for your info. FSX will go in and make some hidden folders on your C: (os) drive. The sim needs those to run, so dont delete after install

[jnigeld]

Many thanks for that info Bass! I had a feeling that some parts of FSX would just have to go / wind up in my operating system hard drive no matter what. I'm going to take my time with this so it's going to be a lengthy process. I've already backed up a lot of my FSX stuff on data DVDs just in case. Thanks again!

[jnigeld]

FSX Gold Edition (FSX Deluxe and the Acceleration expansion pack) is now installed on my internal, IDE slave drive (separate drive from my master operating system drive). The install went well with no errors. FSX/Acceleration opens up just fine and runs just fine from this internal IDE slave drive! All traces of FSX were uninstalled and deleted from my master operating system drive first. However, I'm having a lot of problems with the FSX SDK install and menu/tools. I have installed and then uninstalled the FSX SDK from the discs (following the installer prompts) several times at different places in both my master and slave hard drives. Still when I open and run FSX with Acceleration, there are NO tools to use the SDK in the menu. When I was using just FSX Deluxe, the FSX SDK worked just fine and I had A tool icon in the menu. Now with FSX/Acceleration, I can't get that and so can't use the FSX SDK tools. Any thoughts on a fix for this? Many thanks, Nigel

[dave3cu]

Did you edited the dll.xml to activate the tools?

[jnigeld]

Many thanks for your reply dave3cu! Please explain if you could as I don't believe I had to do this when I was using just FSX Deluxe. Where is the dll.xml file and how do I edit it? Do I install the SDK first and then edit or do I edit and then install the SDK? Really need some direction here on this one! Many thanks again!

[garymbuska]

Many thanks for your reply dave3cu! Please explain if you could as I don't believe I had to do this when I was using just FSX Deluxe. Where is the dll.xml file and how do I edit it? Do I install the SDK first and then edit or do I edit and then install the SDK? Really need some direction here on this one! Many thanks again!

First off I do not have the SDK but Where did you install it at. It might have to be in the same folder as FSX like I said I am just tossing ideas out and could be wrong on this if so my apologies.

[dave3cu]

OS dll.xml location.....
XP C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\FSX\
Vista C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\
Win7 C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\

It's in the same location as your fsx.cfg file.

If you find the file could you copy the text and post it here? Also please post the location <path> for your FSX SDK installation.

Also, here is an SDK installation-troubleshooting guide from FSDeveloper-http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=SDK_Installation_(FSX)_-_Troubleshooting

Dave

[jnigeld]

Many, many thanks for all the info and suggestions about the SDK. I will look everything over and see what I can come up with. Nigel

[jandjfrench]

Hi,
Here's an excellent guide to installing the FSX SDK:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.p ... _%28FSX%29

One problem that I noticed with your installation is covered in the "Troubleshooting" link of the procedure:
"If you had installed either FSX, or the SDK, to a non-default location,
you must run configsdk.exe from the SDK's root folder."
Jim F.

[jnigeld]

Such a great group and forum here...glad I joined! Many thanks to everyone who helped with my hard drive and SDK issues!!! So far FSX with Acceleration is running just fine (and a bit faster) from my internal IDE slave drive. It turns out that the the SDK tools menu problem was indeed needing to edit the dll.xml file by changing the True/False stuff and changing the paths to reflect the install location. I always back up files, so the original dll file is saved elsewhere just in case. After running the Configsdk function, I thought that would have solved the problem, but it didn't. After manual editing, problem solved! Many thanks again to everyone!!! Regards and happy flights, Nigel