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Which tip is that please Sierra? As another Sidewinder2 user, it would also help to get the rundown on your settings as well please. Fullflap

Well that may be so! And in that event, the least I should be able to expect is some reasonable notification of what's happening. I've had precisely the identical experience, to the point that I cleaned the folder out .... now I can't get either the patch or the program top install. Very close to losing all remaining patience and wanting my money back!

Just to say many, many thanks to Wim, Col and the others for your suggestions - I hadn't expected anything quite as simple but that noise is now off! Cheers = Bob

Is there any way I can disable or switch off that irritating music that begins as FSX loads up please?

I know my set of FSX Gold disks are perfect, clean and OK for Windows10. They also install without any issue on other laptops I’ve tried, including half a dozen on the shelf at PC World etc! Also, a/v (Panda and Malwarebytes) was disengaged during all attempted installs. It's just my PC - Disk 1 goes in and then chatters away for at least 90+ minutes before reading enough to start installation. Same with Disk 2 and likewise the third, Acceleration disk. I've tried changing physical drive hardware, updated/reinstalled DVD drivers, also tried plug-in drives, plus increased the power supply from 600W to 750W. Sometimes, the change works at the first attempt … but then always reverts back to the same old problem. If I wait long enough (90+ mins) the chatter usually stops (Disk1, but not on inserting Disk 2 or the Acceleration disk). I can start an installation from here, but end up with the error code: 1-80004005 which I guess is an activation problem with the Acceleration install. I’ll have to see if I can resolve this (as described in thread Flight sim boots me off – 04/26/2019). Is it some conflict arising between drivers loaded somewhere in my PC and the write-protect of the install disks? If so, why doesn’t the same issue happen with other programs? Am I really the only one to have ever experienced this problem? It’s soooo very, very frustrating, not least getting brief glimpses of what I should be able to run. Any ideas what I can do to solve this would be really welcome please!! Bob C

Thanks everyone for all your suggestions. I tried a slave USB drive but that didn't work either but the answer from both StringBean and CptCaveman certainly did. Plus it is only these FSX disks that the DVD drive can't read all the old and new stuff's no problem at all. Anyway, FSX is up and flying on my PC now and I'm really grateful for your help - just sorry it took me a while to get around to saying so! Salut = BOB

Thanks y'all for your responses. First, there is only the FSX Disk 1 in the drive and nothing else, also I'm not running any DVD burning software either I have also double-checked the DVD drive and confirm it works perfectly with a range of other (also older) installation disks with no problem. I have now left the drive chattering away for a 90+ minutes and as Elvensmith reports, eventually it's stopped! During this period, autorun tried to work once but got hung up on the 32-bit installer, so I've left it to chatter some more! Is that the core of my problem - is it because I'm trying to install on Windows 10, 64-bit? I've tried manually starting the process using the various .exe files that would seem to begininstallation, with the following outcomes: The setup.exe reports 'Error 1607: Unable to install InstallShield Scripting Runtime'. Likewise the DVDCheck.exe file. Next, WindowsInstaller-KB893803-x86.exe reports 'Setup Error - Not enough storage is available to process this command The vcredist_x86.exe file reports 'Another program is being installed. Please wait until completed and try again'! Guess I might give this another go later The Microsoft Flight Simulator X.msi says '1: The installation cannot be run by directly launching the MSI package. You must run setup.exe' which of course I've tried but has also failed. The instmsia.exe and instmsiw.exe files both report 'Wrong OS or OS version for application' Trying to run Compatibility Check notifies that this is an incompatible program! Also found another .exe file in the Program Files folder on the FSX disk but this also gave this error message: 'Flight Simulator cannot run because the version of Microsoft DirectX installed on your computer is incompatible. Please reinstall DirectX 9.0 by running setup or download from .... etc.' Any other thoughts please?

Help! In spite of trying 3 different copies of FSX installation DVDs, I just can't get the program to load in Windows 10 for a first install. The DVD drive chatters away incessantly and the best I can get is the list of contents of various files and folders. Selecting 'Run as Administrator' or attempting to manually select the WindowsInstaller-KB89308-86x.exe or setup.exe options results in error messages suggesting insufficient disk space and the KB89308 file is for 'a different platform' whatever that means! Has this happened to anyone else please and is there a fix, like installing from an ISO file? Are there other compatibility issues between FSX and Windows 10? I completely overlooked the obvious - could this all be down to a 64-bit compatibility issue and is there any sort of work-around please? Cheers = Bob