Coomputer Kaput

[Ian Warren]

GOOD LUCK ... Ya going to love the end result Paul , no long XMAS

[utopian]

thats annoying hope i all works out for you with out to much hassle

[ardypilot]

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Moral of this story is to always have a backup pc handy better yet two backup pc's[/quote]
I just copied my 25GB fs2004 directory to a portable harddrive- does that mean I can go plug it into any USB port in other computers and run it straight off my carry around HDD? Or do I need to also copy the FS9.cfg and registry files, or compleatly install FS9 again before being able to run the application?

[Charl]

You'd need to install FS on the machine to get the registry entries right.
Stuff like aircraft, sounds, textures etc would then have to be copied over into the FS folder.
Addon sceneries could be added one by one, and run from, from the external HDD.
(Or you could change the scenery.cfg to point entries to the external drive)
It'll run a little slow because USB is slower than your system bus.

I just install FS, update to 9.1, and copy/overwrite everything from the external backup, it's quickest.

FS creates its own default FS.cfg file, but you'd have to copy that too if customised.

[ardypilot]

Thought so- thanks Charl.

Its always to safe than sorry I guess. At least now if I fry my main computer I still have my hobby intact in a little black box.