Starting over...

[Wing Nut]

Well, after two years of flying FS9, a hard drive failure is causing me to start over completley from scratch.  Brother is THIS going to be fun...  ::)

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

Dear dear Kevin, I really feel sorry for you

It's going to be a pain getting everything back together...

Hope You Recover Your FS9 Soon,
Ashar

[Ivan]

Will do a new install after summer holidays are over...
Loads of fresh repaints and new russian AI models to install

[Saitek]

Oh that is so annoying. I have done amazingly well in that I have not needed to reinstall FS9 for at least 6 months now! I must be getting the hang of the downloads! Prior to this I almost needed a reinstall every few months.

[littleport2003]

had the same problem. My fs9 turned out better as i reinstalled each plane one by one fixing anyprob they had and maybe changing a few effects ect.... I have les planes than before but there much better qaulity

Matt

[Fly2e]

Kevin, I am in the process of re building my entire machine since the upgrade.
Luckily, I am very meticulous when adding new add ons and have made a list of installing all the main sim stuff.

As I follow each numbered addon, there is a folder in an external that matches. I just add each and cross off when it is installed.

It has made "managing" and adding all my add ons very simple.

I learned this from a similar experience.

Here is a copy of some of my add ons and how they are listed.



FLIGHT SIMULATOR INSTALL SEQUENCE

1.      Hotas Cougar Joystick Software                        CD
2.      Pilots FS Global World Mesh                              CD
3.      MY World Land class                                    Priority Folder
4.      FSScene World all 4 seasons                              Priority Folder
5.      FS Gen Rails roads streams.                              Priority Folder
6.      Airport Enhancer                                    Priority Folder
7.      FS2004 No CD File                                    Priority Folder
8.      New Enmap                                          Priority Folder
9.      Spotlight replacement                                    Priority Folder
10.      Strobes Sequence                                    Priority Folder
11.      Water Zone by Bill Lyons                              Priority Folder
12.      Water depth file                                    Priority Folder
13.      Detailed Taxi & Runways                              Priority Folder
14.      FSUIPC Module & Update                              Priority Folder
15.      Active Sky & Update

[Hai Perso Coyone?]

[quote]Kevin, I am in the process of re building my entire machine since the upgrade.
Luckily, I am very meticulous when adding new add ons and have made a list of installing all the main sim stuff.

As I follow each numbered addon, there is a folder in an external that matches. I just add each and cross off when it is installed.

It has made "managing" and adding all my add ons very simple.

I learned this from a similar experience.

Here is a copy of some of my add ons and how they are listed.



FLIGHT SIMULATOR INSTALL SEQUENCE

1.      Hotas Cougar Joystick Software                        CD
2.      Pilots FS Global World Mesh                              CD
3.      MY World Land class                                    Priority Folder
4.      FSScene World all 4 seasons                              Priority Folder
5.      FS Gen Rails roads streams.                              Priority Folder
6.      Airport Enhancer                                    Priority Folder
7.      FS2004 No CD File                                    Priority Folder
8.      New Enmap                                          Priority Folder
9.      Spotlight replacement                                    Priority Folder
10.      Strobes Sequence                                    Priority Folder
11.      Water Zone by Bill Lyons                              Priority Folder
12.      Water depth file                                    Priority Folder
13.      Detailed Taxi & Runways                              Priority Folder
14.      FSUIPC Module & Update                              Priority Folder
15.      Active Sky & Update

[Fly2e]

That certainly lot's of payware...

LOL, that is only a quarter of it!
It does not include over 50 payware aircraft and MANY of the scenery add ons.

Like I said, that list is my main REBUILD, mostly utilities, must have sceneries and really the foundation of my simulator.

Dave

[ozzy72]

I'm also now doing a re-install after todays crash! I am not a happy bear

[Wing Nut]

It's infectious.  You should not have chatted with me.  The ICQ virus strikes again...  ::)  ;)

[Wing Nut]

For the record, I took this 30 gig drive (I thought it was 40) and partitioned 3 gigs off for the pagefile and the rest is for FS9.  Gonna have lots of breathing room now!  :)

[Skittles]

I've had three crashes in the last two months. I've got reinstalling everything down to about 2.5 hours.

[BFMF]

[quote]For the record, I took this 30 gig drive (I thought it was 40) and partitioned 3 gigs off for the pagefile and the rest is for FS9.

[Jared]

hmmm, I've been running pretty good since last august when I formatted to clean up some messy isntallations of a bad program....

all files are backed up twice a week just to be safe though..

I've created a slipstreamed boot cd set as well, so I can pop each cd in and it will isntall all of my programs, drivers, etc automatically! no messing around with the disks, and product codes, they are all stored on the cd! Simply the best way to go...

I did this with my laptop as well and it can be up and running in 27 minutes!

[Foxtrot Sport]

[quote]SCE2.