https://imgur.com/hMsu78N This is all I get when I go to msfs in the apps tab mate.
Where you have āModifyā, I have āMoveā.
I would click āModifyā to see what it will let you do.
Well see thatās the problem, I donāt have an option to modify. Itās greyed out and cannot be usedā¦
Imgur: The magic of the Internet Hereās a gif image showing that I canāt get anything when I move my mouse over it. Itās really peculiar though, I donāt know why it would be different. Could it be that i have windows 10 Pro and maybe you have a different version?
I donāt know what āimgurā is?
Is this the simplest way and does it work? I have another internal SSD on the way and would like to move the sim to that drive.
Yes and yes.
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Assume you are referring to the MS version?
having to do the same (just got a faster SSD) and have the steam version - will this work also?
No.
This is Windows 10 only.
Just found thisā¦hopefully it can help
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/move-msfs2020-to-new-drive/250773&ved=2ahUKEwiV2OvYpszwAhU7EFkFHU7DD7UQFjAAegQIBBAC&usg=AOvVaw26-A9MDMdNPOvAFjafvkE5
Iāve read this whole thread. Iāve used some advice but Iāve still got a problem. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I purchased MSFS from the MS Store and installed it onto a large partition on a regular hard drive. It ran fine but very slow on loading. The Drive Letter was G\
I installed a new 1TB Samsung SSD and cloned the MSFS partition and moved it to the new SSD.
I changed the Drive Letter on the Hard Drive partition to Z\ and made the new SSD G\ to match the original path. Now MSFS will not run from either location. Iāve tried changing the UserCfg.Opt file but it wonāt run. Iāve looked at Apps/Move and I can see that the current location is Z:MSFS2020 and if I attempt to Move it to G:MSFS I get the message āWe couldnāt move MSFS. Try again laterā Iāve retried many times. Iāve tried with and without the move downloaded data box ticked.
If I try to run MSFS from any location I get the message "Microsoft Flight Simulator canāt open because it canāt be found. The storage device might be missing or disconnected.
Iām just stumped now. Please help. Iām missing something pretty obvious surely?
Iām not an expert on this but āclone the MSFS Partitionā has
me scratching my head.
I have cloned many drives but not just a partition on a drive.
I wonder if this is the cause of your problem.
MSFS has files on the C:\ (or boot drive) that tell it where FS2020 is.
Seems like your cloning and changing drive letters did nothing to
update these files.
Granted, the UserCfg.Opt setting should point it to the correct location.
I guess it could be Ron. Maybe I need to start again? Maybe āMoveā the partition instead of āCloneā?
Before I make any drastic changes do you have any idea where on the C Drive I might need to amend the path?
Yes. I would do that.
Get the original harddrive working again as G:.
Then Settings, APPs āMoveā to new SSD. SSD can be any drive letter.
Note that you are moving FS2020, not a partition.
Thanks for your help. Appreciated Ron.
Just to update in case it helps someone. I set my MS2020 partition back to G\ and Windows was now happy to move it to my new SSD. I ticked the box to move data.
Well, it did move data but not all of it by any means. I then had to download 89GB from the Microsoft Store again. When that was done I had to re-download all of the MSFS optional scenery packs and Store purchases again. I then manually copied across all the items in the Community folder.
So for me, the Move was unsuccessful. I pretty much started again. I hope that others have more luck.
On the plus side MSFS now gets to the opening options screen in about a quarter of the previous time so the SSD was worth installing.
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just about to try to this (note have the steam not MS version) but guess some of the principles should be the same).
1)When you talk about moving the āpackagesā folder with community and official in are you copying the whole āMicrosoft Flight Simulatorā folder (from the user/app data/roaming) folder or are you just copying the āpackagesā folder and leaving the rest behind? - if just packages is there no way to move the whole MSFS folder?
2)On my steam version under local/packages/MicrsoftFlightSimulator_8wekyb/localstate /packages - there is no.cfg file just Justflight pa28 folder! - however in my user/appdata/roaming/MicrosoftFlightSimulator folder there is a userCfg.opt file along with the pakages folder- this .opt file has the install route at the bottom of the file - assume this is one I should change to the new ssd ?
I should have and will try to remember to always say that
my reference is for MS Store.
But since āSettings, Appsā Move command is Windows 10,
I donāt know how it would matter if the download came from
Steam or MS Store.
yes understand this is for the MS store version but I think principles should be the same - but interested to know if everyone is just moving the āpackagesā folder in the install folder or are they moving the whole āmicrosoft flight simulatorā folder which contains the āpackagesā and a few other files?
I can only tell you that my FS2020 is installed like this:
C:\ drive (boot drive) - The initial 1.06 GB of the download.
D:\FS22020\ The additional 170 GB of the download
After the initial 1.06 GB was downloaded, the download program
displayed a prompt, āWhere do you want FS installed.ā
I had already created the partition D:\FS2020.
The part of FS2020 on C:\ (boot drive) will never and can never
be moved if you want FS2020 to run.
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Got it - so I think what your confirming is that the only bit of msfs you can really move to the new ssd is theā packagesā folder(which in any case is the largest part of the program) - everything else stays in the C drive ?