How to move your existing FSX installation to another SSD drive?
Read carefully and check each step:
- Navigate to the root of FSX, standard e.g.: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/
- Select the folder e.g.: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/
- Press the key combination Ctrl+X to cut the folder Microsoft Flight Simulator X (folder changes into faded color)
- Navigate to the other drive that you want to move your FSX installation to
- Press the key combination Ctrl+V to paste the folder e.g. drive F:/
- Check your new folder contents
- Navigate back to the original folder e.g. C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft GamesMicrosoft Flight Simulator X
- Delete this folder Microsoft Flight Simulator X if still there
- Close all Windows Explorer views and Open the Command Mode as administrator (%windir%system32cmd.exe)
- Type in the command line (without quotes) “mklink /j” (mind the space after the letter k)
- After typing mklink /j hit the space bar once and type a double quote ”
- Directly after this double quote, type the original location of the FSX folder and close with a double quote “
- The command line looks so far like: mklink /j “C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/”
- Hit the space bar once and type the new location of the FSX installation as on your new drive between double quotes.
- The command line looks like e.g. this:
- mklink /j “C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/” “F:/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/”
- Mind the spaces! And then Hit ENTER
- Ready
- The mklink /j command creates a directory junction between “Link” and “Target”
- This is what you read in the CMD mode:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:Windowssystem32>mklink /j “C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/” “F:/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/”
Junction created for C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Games/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/<<===>> F:/Microsoft Flight Simulator X/
C:/Windows/system32/>
Resources used:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194%28v=ws.10%29.aspxfsx-se