Must Reinstall, Need advice

[wilderobb]

I'm going to have my computer hard drive cleaned out and XP reinstalled. Then I'l have to reinstall FS 2004. Which files should I save and put back in the flight sim. after reinstalling the sim. Like my aircraft,gauges,sound, and effect files. Am I missing anything.

[The Avro Arrow]

If you have dial-up connection you should back-up your add-ons.

[wilderobb]

How do I do that?

[TacitBlue]

Put them on a Zip-Disk or CDRW. If it will fit, just move your whole aircraft folder to whatever back-up disk you use, along with you guages folder. Once you finish reinstalling, just move your backup copies to the FS9 folder and let them over-write what was just installed. I've done this before, and it works. The only difference was that I backed them up on a seperate hard drive.

[Foxtrot Sport]

Use a memory stick, not CD.

-HF

[dave3cu]

unless of course, you dont have a memory stick...

Dave

[wilderobb]

Thanks folks. I'v put everything on CD's (16 so far) that I can think of. I see theres a lot of other things I needed to save as well; Internet Addresses ect. I'l have to redo my yoke,printer,mouse and all kinds of things.... I hope to be in the air tonight (7/28) but won't rush things. Also I hope my frame rate improves, not that its all that bad;about 15-20 on a good day but I'll have a lot more memory freed up. Now if I could have the Computer Dr. speed my prosseser up a little......
I hope to be back soon, Wildie.