Simviation Forum - FSX Activation Problem?

Reply #15 - Dec 21^st, 2012 at 2:56am

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I Googled about FSX activation problems and it appeared there are a lot of people having similar problems.

What's important here is the fact that for some reason the FSX activation dialog is incompatible with a high capacity WD HDD.

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Reply #16 - Dec 21^st, 2012 at 8:47am

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I believe you siad you could install it on your smaller HDD and it would work.
Have you tried leaving the smaller one as your Primary with FSX on it and the? and the larger WD HDD as a secondary? I know this isn't what you wanted, but hey, if it works at least you can have FSX and lots of storage too.

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Reply #17 - Dec 21^st, 2012 at 9:26am

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macklinbob wrote on Dec 21^st, 2012 at 2:56am:

I Googled about FSX activation problems and it appeared there are a lot of people having similar problems.

What's important here is the fact that for some reason the FSX activation dialog is incompatible with a high capacity WD HDD.

Bob Macklin
Seattle, Wa

I installed FSX Acceleration on my wifes laptop last night just to see if it worked. No problems to report.

You said you are trying to install on an external device?
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20588193-Dont-install-Flight-Simulator-X-on-to-...
I'm pretty sure that FSX can not be installed on an external HD. It needs to be on a bootable device

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Reply #18 - Dec 21^st, 2012 at 11:28pm

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The drives I have a problem with are drives that have Western Digital's fix to get past XP's 137GB HDD size limit.

In my case i will make the smaller boot drive the primary boot drive and use the screwed up one for emergencies.

I Googled "FSX activation" problems. And read a lot about other people having similar problems.

Twice when I tried to activate FSX on the large disk the next time I booted the computer CheckDisk came up trying to fix problems. So bad that I had to do a system restore.

My FSX installation is on a logical partition. The validation information is saved on the boot partition.

I have had this same problem on two computers that have large WD HDDs.

This weekend I plan to try installing it on my notebook that only has a small drive.

Bob Macklin
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Reply #19 - Dec 22^nd, 2012 at 4:35am

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I just replaced my old PC (AMD Dual core, 2gig Ram) with a new AMD A6 Quad core, 12 gig Ram.
Now I backed up everything from the old PC to my 1T external HD first, including FSX.
When installing FSX on the new PC I had to activate it using the phone. For Acceleration...It had all kinds of errors.
I actually forgot about the External HD with FSX on it. FSX runs perfectaly from the external HD. Wink

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Reply #20 - Feb 17^th, 2013 at 10:19am

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Does anyone know how to do it?? I know a bit about computers, but i dont know how to partition drives etc

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Reply #21 - Feb 17^th, 2013 at 11:20am

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luke 626 wrote on Feb 17^th, 2013 at 10:19am:

Does anyone know how to do it?? I know a bit about computers, but i dont know how to partition drives etc

Sorry if i lead you into a goose hunt, ref.
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You dont need to partionate your hd to get fsx running!
You need to get it activated. M$ stopped all suply for their products concerning Flight Simulators, but a phone call, in a polite manner (sorry to say so), could make wonders!
Try it Wink

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Reply #22 - Feb 17^th, 2013 at 4:17pm

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I will try it in the morning, thanks!

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