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May 14^th, 2011 at 2:09pm

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I just purchased a 1 TB external drive. I want to move my FSX onto it as my memory on my desktop is almost full; I run a lot of add-ons!
I know I have to uninstall FSX then reinstall onto the ex-drive. My question is, what happens to my add-ons? Do I have to manually reinstall them?

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Reply #1 - May 14^th, 2011 at 6:36pm

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That would be a really stupid thing to do, USb is a lot slower than your sata interface and would only make matters worse as everything would be accessed a lot slower. Go buy another internal drive and then copy the fsx folder there and delete the old copy ( only the fsx folder and all in it), then run the fsxpath repair tool, You will still have to reinstall all your addons no matter which path you take.

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Reply #2 - May 14^th, 2011 at 7:12pm

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I tried that very same thing, but 'test drove' first. The external does not address at near any respectable rate(s) as mentioned. It was epic-fail for me.

However! I moved a few big things to the 1TB EHD, left FSX where it should be, and that did help a lot.

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