I recently had to re-format my main drive, and decided to partition it and try to run FS9 (which I had to re-install) outside of the OS partition.
Installed fine and runs fine so far, but I can't seem to install the patch. My guess is that because the option is not given to install it on any drive you wish, it is looking for C:  .
Anyone know if this is right? If so, is there a download that will allow me to update FS9 wherever I have it?

I would guess that it needs to find FS9 in C: too. How old is your FS9? I never had the problem of the patch install because it came on my disks.

I have FS installed on my D: drive and the patch installed fine. Must say that this D: drive is a completely seperate drive, not a partition. As long as your pc knows where you have FS installed, it should install the patch in the right place.

Carlo ;)

beaky wrote on Jan 16^th, 2010 at 11:42pm:

I recently had to re-format my main drive, and decided to partition it and try to run FS9 (which I had to re-install) outside of the OS partition. Installed fine and runs fine so far, but I can't seem to install the patch. My guess is that because the option is not given to install it on any drive you wish, it is looking for C:  . Anyone know if this is right? If so, is there a download that will allow me to update FS9 wherever I have it?

As far as I know the update should install properly even if your FS2004 installation is on another drive.

Two things you might check - use this utility to verify or correct the path to FS2004 in your registry:

http://www.flight1software.com/files/FS_Registry_Repair.exe

Place the update exe file in your Flight Simulator 9 folder and run it from there - that is what MS recommends on the update download page.  I understand some folks have had problems if the exe file is executed outside of the FS folder.

Good Luck!

a1 wrote on Jan 17^th, 2010 at 2:40am:

I would guess that it needs to find FS9 in C: too. How old is your FS9? I never had the problem of the patch install because it came on my disks.

I think I found the "problem"- this version was a replacement copy I got fairly recently... file version  9.1.0.40901.    ;D

beaky wrote on Jan 18^th, 2010 at 10:19am:

a1 wrote on Jan 17th, 2010 at 2:40am: I would guess that it needs to find FS9 in C: too. How old is your FS9? I never had the problem of the patch install because it came on my disks. I think I found the "problem"- this version was a replacement copy I got fairly recently... file version  9.1.0.40901.    ;D

Yes - forgot to mention that later shipments of FS2004 from MS already were updated to version 9.1 - only the early shipments need to be updated.