cj75s Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Hi I have FSX installed on an internal sata drive D:. However my DVD drive also wants that drive letter so when I plug it in (it's internal and also sata) my D: drive disappears from windows 10 altogether. I have tried rescanning in disk management, also tried other partition programs but to no avail. I do know that the D: drive shows up in the BIOS. If I unplug the DVD drive then D: shows up again. My question is, If I assign D: another drive letter e.g K: can I change the FSX.CFG file so all instances of D: are changed to K: Would this work? I have searched the registry for any instances of FSX (Flight Simulator and flight simulator and FSX and fsx) but have only found one which doesn't appear to point to any hard drive. Any one know? Thankyou in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longbreak754 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Hi, Short answer is YES and NO.... Some areas of the FSX.cfg MAY need changing - but the bigger issue will be the scenery.cfg file entries... The entries in the scenery.cfg file falls into two categories - default FSX and non default FSX....default FSX entries only require a simple truncated pathname whereas non default ones require the full path - as shown in these examples from my setup... Default areas: [Area.098] Title=1107 Base Local=Scenery\1107 Layer=98 Active=TRUE Required=FALSE [Area.099] Title=Africa Local=Scenery\AFRI Layer=99 Active=TRUE Required=FALSE Non default area: [Area.143] Layer=157 Local=D:\Addon Scenery\Object Libraries\EZ Scenery Library Title=EZ Scenery Library Required=FALSE Active=TRUE [Area.239] Layer=238 Local=D:\Addon Scenery\Airports - Basic\UK Title=: UK Required=FALSE Active=TRUE [Area.265] Layer=264 Local=D:\Addon Scenery\Airports - Detailed\EGXC RAF Coningsby Title=EGXC RAF Coningsby Required=FALSE Active=TRUE A better and easier solution would to permanently change the drive letter assigned to the DVD drive...this will have no impact on any install you have already made as no reference to the drive properties where the install was run from is recorded.... Regards Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 thank you Brian. I never thought about the scenery addons. I think tomorrow or sometime soon(too much work and I'm retired too) I will bite the bullet and do it after saving copies of fsx.cfg and scenery.cfg. I did think about changing the DVD drive, I have tried making it a usb drive on a usb 3 connection but it still obliterated by D drive from windows. Maybe I should try changing it first before delving into cfg files. Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longbreak754 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 You could actually, if you wished, permanently assign a drive letter to both the removable drive that contains FSX (so that it always seen as D:) and to the DVD.... There are a number of ways to permanently assign a new drive letter depending on: A. Operating system (although it is almost identical for all Win versions bar naming conventions on which area to make the change) B. Fixed or removal hardware. Google is you friend here - simple search using the search phrase How to permanently assign a drive letter will throw up a variety of generic examples whilst being more specific - by adding the OS for example will throw more specific info... That said this GUIDE covers it well.... Regards Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt401964 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Follow this guide to assign the DVD a different Drive letter. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/change-a-drive-letter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cj75s Posted July 20, 2022 Author Share Posted July 20, 2022 Thank you all guys, I shall look at both guides. I am using win10 and have been using disk management. I guess what I'm after is a way of telling windows programs i.e. Ttools etc where fsx is. Probably the best thing is to keep DVD as a usb one and only use it and plug it in when I need it, which is very rare. thank you all once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 In Win 10 you can rename drives to give them any letter you want, except for the C: drive, which by definition is the OS drive and must be present with Windows on it. For some reason, it seems the Windows is most comfortable with the optical (CD or DVD) drive being D:, so just give the "other" disk drive the letter E: and install there. Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 you mentioned usb. is the dvd drive a usb-dvd drive? and how about that E: harddisk. is that Sata (internal)? Usb (so in external port)? or e-sata (external-sata) (external port)? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomak249 Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 While your at it and before going any further get yourself an SSD for FSX, the difference in load times is amazing i5 4690 (350mhz) with Arctic Cooler, 32GB Patriot Viper 1600mhz, ASUS Rock H97 performance MoBo, MSI Ventus XS OC 1660GTX 6GB, Windows10 64bit, 256GB and 500GB Crucial SSDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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