Hmm, I where using as well a profi software für copying. 2 month ago I moved my complete working OS to a new, bigger drive with this software. after replacing, the new drive worked well.
However meanwhile I realized that I have a folder on my “f:” drive which might be the reason for my trouble. I vaguely remember that when I installed the FS software, I said: Please do the entire installation on an other hard drive (this f drive).
This is the folder structure how it was before and is now again.
This WindowsApps Folder seems to content the real game files and inside there are file where even me as Admin hav no access neither in copy nor in opening (and we talk about an *.ini file for example).
I recognized this when I wanted to copy the complete f-drive content to another drive (just with the explorer). Some files didn’t allow me to copy them. So finally just copying one drive content to another one will not work - when there is as well the gaming software based.
The really crazy things are although I told the installation please install yourself complete out of my OS to another drive I have still some GB data on my OS drive and now I have data there in c:\ and f:\ as well. (ok, that some files have to be in the OS folder - clear - but even gigabytes of material?)
You see here in the picture the WPSystem folder? - This folder seems to content the similar stuff like what everybody and even me have on the c drive as well, so it’s mirrored ?!?
This is really crazy everywhere on my system are now parts spreaded from MSFS . This is absolutly no clean programming. It’s really longtime ago I had such an nightmare installation and finally I come to the conclusion, never buy a software like this from MS again. It is digging and interlocked that deep in your system that your rather setup your OS completely new afer deleting.
Finally I assume I have to kill now my complete FS installiation (with the hope it’ll run smoth again, keeping fingers crossed) after couple of hours downloading I’ll see.