Hi All,
Recently purchased a new PC and installed Steam on my C Drive (1TB NVME) accidently, MSFS has installed on that 1TB drive.
I want to move this to a 4TB NVME - is this a difficuilt process or should I start again by reinstalling steam on the 4TB drive and the sim too?
Don’t really want to do that as my internet is dog slow…
any advice greatly appreciated
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Instructions for Steam on bottom
So, my "Program Files X86) is installed on my C drive - is this correct? Even tho I want Steam on my E drive?
Even if I point my MSFS install to E it installs on C?
How do I download Steam on E drive along with MSFS?
Ive uninstalled and started again, but again, just goes straight to C drive?
I’m really new to this so would greatly appreciate your help
It keeps deferring to C even though I select E in steam download
C:\Users\kevin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator
That is just the launcher, you will be able to choose later for the packages path.
It is very highly recommended to keep the launcher in the default location.
The launcher is about 1.3 GB in size.
Thank you for the response but even though MSFS is pointed to E it appears to install in C as shown above with the file path?
C:\Users\kevin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator
Hi Kevin
Click on tenpatrol’s link - it explains what to do
Yes, you should leave that on the C Drive.
MSFS often has issues if you don’t.
When the launcher you put on C runs, it will ask you where you want to put your package files, put those on your E drive.
The package files are your one store and community folders, by far the biggest part anyway.
OK thank you.
C:\Users\kevin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Community
This is basically what I want on my E drive but by default it is going to C? how do I configure this to go to E?
Hi Kevin
Spelling this out in detail how far along in the install are you?
Just the starting bit of getting the installer program installed? Or have you spent an hour downloading all of MSFS?
I’ve just restarted and changed config file but know when I go to the install it says not enough space on disk?
I have 4TB of NVME
really appreciate the help folks
One hurdle over, managed to fix that!
Now lets wait and see, thank you all so much
do I now need to delete the packages folder in “C”
No, just confirm it is empty.
Yes, its empty!
Thank you once again
