OK - so I know I'm being a pain again - but if anyone CAN help, the San Migs are on me!! Here we go: Upgraded my PC last week - almost a new PC - new mobo - new chip - new graphics card - 1TB drive - in other words, the works! My HD is split in 2 - about 250 gig on the C drive (system files and Windows 7 on there) - D drive is almost 700 gig for games, music, dirty movies etc.... - and my old 250 gig drive which still has all my old, but important rubbish on it, is now drive G. (Drives E and F being my 2 DVD drives.) Are you still with me??? OK - Here's question one: How can I move all my important docs, games etc from drive G to drive C or D? (There is about 150 gig of stuff on there.) Is it going to be a time-consuming manual task? Incidentally, the PC boots to drive C with Windows 7. My old (now slave) drive G has XP SP3 on it. Question two - (different subject) - I am typing this through my tears because I am a Flight Simulator nut - I have FSX - but it won't install - goes through installation and then when indexing files comes up with a fatal error!!! If I can't play with my Flight Sim on Windows 7 - then I shall have to go and do the honourable thing!! Question three - I am also a Formula One nut and I was able to buy F1 2011 when I was in blighty a couple of weeks ago. When I got back here I realised that my Microsoft Force Feedback 2 joystick is not supported on the game. I have no intention of trying to play the game using the keyboard!! Is my only alternative going to be to fly to Hong Kong or Singapore to pick up a steering wheel? (Of course, no such kit here in Cebu.) If I can't play my F1 game, I shall go and do the honourable thing again!!! Thanks for reading my ramblings - please help a sad, middle-aged forum member. Hmmm........maybe I should spend more time with Hanna!!! Have to go now - there is a re-run of the Korean Grand Prix on Star - then it's Air Crash Investigation on Nat Geo!! Al.:england:
I'm not much of a computer techie so I can't answer your questions. But.... I have done similar movements of data. Large amounts of data. I'd be interested to know of some good responses especially since everything I've moved has taken absoultely ages and ages. Mostly done manually. I've tried all this xpress back up thingy, and recording Hard Drive images, but just can't seem to easily access the stuff afterwards and end up doing a manual copy again. There's plenty of people here know, so I'm just waiting for their gems.
Al, I am going through a similar copy process right now, first thing is you have a good partition scheme for a 1TB drive 250 GB for the Operating System is well done! You need to realise that by default your personal data like documents, pictures, must and the likes will get stored by default on the C: drive in c:\users\<YourProfileName> where <YourProfileName> is the name of your login, this is not actually where you want them to be because eventually one day you will fill up the OS while you still have loads of spare space on the D: drive. You can reassign the location of these folders to another drive indeed under windows 7 you can specify multiple locations that get grouped together, see the new libraries feature in Windows 7. Personally I would create a new D:\users\<YourProfileName> folder on D: create the same subfolders under that that already exist on the C: drive then use the Properties page of the library folder to include this new folder, I will try to post a screen grab example for you. Once you have your folders in the right place, it is I'm afraid a copy operation from the old drive to your new folders. The second problem you probably need the Windows XP mode virtual machine, which version of Windows 7 are you running? Give me an hour or two and I will get a couple of screen grabs to help with the first problem.
Windows 7 Professional and above can be upgraded to include "Windows XP Mode" just checked you can get it here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx It adds Virtual PC to Windows 7 and gives you a licenced Windows XP virtual machine (VM), you would then run this and install your Flight Sim into the VM, you will then be able to run your older programs hopefully. Once you have installed a program this way you don't have to always start the VM and run the program in there, you can create a menu item in Windows 7 that launches the VM in the background and the program in the foreground, so it feels more like just like a normal program. How much RAM have you got Al and is the OS 32 bit or 64 bit?
