Storing Flight Simulator on a Back up hard drive

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As for me, I changed the location of MSFS a few times - from my internal SSD (which pretty soon was too small) to an external 2 TB SSD connected via fast (!) USB-C, and then just recently back to a newly bought 4 TB 2nd internal SSD.

Actually, you can have

  1. MSFS itself on a certain drive of your choice (using the Windows builtin App move feature)
  2. Your MSFS contents (the “big stuff”, >100 GB) on another drive (by changing the useropt.cfg file)
  3. Linked folders on another drive/other drives into the “Community” folder (using 3rd party software)

This gives you a lot of flexibility in connection with your HDD space :slight_smile:

There are some excellent tutorials out there. Just search for “move MSFS to new drive”.
This is one of them.

I hope, this is helpful for you :wink: