More than 400Go occupied with MSFS

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Hello,
I have changed my PC and reinstall the M2 disk on which I had MSFS in my new PC. I went to the Microsoft store and downloaded and installed MSFS. the disk has a capacity of 500Go and dedicated to MSFS. Without having installed all updates the disk has only 70Go remaining. Microsoft in the MSFS requirements says that 150Go are necessary. So there is a problem somewhere. I guess I will have to format the disk and reinstall from scratch MSFS.
What do you think ?

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Have you also installed the world updates content? 150 is just the base game with no additions. Also the deluxe / premium version will be more as they have extra planes and scenery. 150 is not gonna cut it these days! :slight_smile:

Also remember that a 500gb disk does not have the whole 500 as usable space. My 4tb only shows as 3.63 actually as space you can use. Same ratio for 500 I would think.

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Hi Baracus250,

You are perfectly right, some part of the disk is used by windows. But this leaves 470 Go. On the older PC I had both MSFS and Prepar 3D on this disk. So I guess MSFS was occupying less than 300Go. I have the premium edition and I cannot install world upadtes given the space I have left.
I definitively believe there is an issue.

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Thank you Hester40MT,
Understood.
Regards,

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Iā€™d have a look using Windows Explorer to see what it taking up all the space before doing anything drastic. You can check the size of a folder by right-clicking on it and selecting ā€˜Propertiesā€™, you should be able to track down where the space has gone this way.

My educated guess is that youā€™ve accidentally downloaded 2 copies of MSFS, you shouldnā€™t have had to reinstall it on the Drive after connecting it to your new PC.

Assuming your M2 Drive is the secondary drive on your new PC:

On your old PC the M2 Drive would have been the C: Drive, on your new PC it would be a different letter (probably D: Drive) due to it being a secondary drive. I think the installer wasnā€™t pointing to the correct installation directory location and has installed a whole second copy of MSFS.

You have 2 choices:

  • You can hunt for the old installation or whatever is taking the space up and delete it (IF SAFE TO DO SO) to free up the space
  • If you want the Drive to be nice and clean you could Format it to get rid of the old Operating System files etc. that you donā€™t want anymore (MAKE SURE YOU BACK-UP ANY FILES YOU WANT TO KEEP BEFORE FORMATTING)

Personally Iā€™d go for option 2 and Format the Drive because of all the old Operating System clutter etc. on it and then you could start fresh. I wish you the best of luck whatever you choose! :slight_smile:

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Hi Speed1994,

Thanks a lot. Your guess is mine too. For whatever reason, I must have downloaded the complete MSFS and it installed on top of the old installation. The M2 is H:\ as I have multiple disks in the PC.
I looked rapidly the installation to see if I had files with the same name in the ā€œofficialā€ folder. It seems not. On this disk I have also a windowsapp folder that I cannot open.
As I bought MSFS Premium on the store, I believe there will be no problem to redownload it from scratch.
And reinstall it on a clean H:\disk formated with Windows 11 (my previous PC was windows 10).
As this H:\ disk is only for MSFS, I guess there sould be no problem to format it and install a new copy of MSFS.
What do you think ?

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If this is something you might consider, iā€™d recommend a clean install on a new drive entirely. Storage is really cheap right now. Sub $100 for a 1TB NVME m.2 drive depending on brand. I only have the US and Canada World Updates with Prem Deluxe as well, not to mention a few hundred dollars worth of payware (~10 min inital load) and i still have just under 250gb. Discounting a handful of other apps under 10gb that still is about 260gb if i were being conservative about it, maybe a little more or less. Discount my downloads folder and itā€™s easily a good 300gb available to me.

Itā€™ll take far less time to install MSFS cleanly than installing windows AND MSFS. Read: youā€™re paying to make the problem go away

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It should be exactly the same as when you reinstalled it last time.

Because the Drive is going to be for MSFS only, Iā€™d recommend doing this. Iā€™d Format the Drive and then reinstall MSFS on it :slight_smile:

Edit: If the H: Drive isnā€™t your boot drive, you donā€™t need to put Windows 11 on it. You can have a blank drive with only MSFS on it

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Thankyou Portalearth420,

The more I think about it (and thanks to your pieces of advice), the more I believe the best thing is to format this disk and cleanally install MSFS.

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Thank you,
I will do so. Windows is on the c:\ drive. You are right, no need to put anything apart MSFS on this h:\ disk

Thanks to all the contributors and answers.

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