FS 2004 was working fine but I then I had to format my C partition and do a clean Windows XP install. FS2004 is on another HDD and in partition of its own at M: and I had to reinstall it of course after the new OS. Now it will simply not run! I have removed the FS2004 software and reinstalled 3 times using Add/Remove in C Panel but every time I execute FS9.exe I get a message saying that it cannot find the CD drive and to re-insert disc 4 starting FS9 over again. This just takes me around the same circle every time. It cannot be a hardware issue because it worked fine before reinstalling XP. I have established that there is no FS9.cfg file but that is not surprising because the program has never managed to run. As FS9.cfg is stored on the C drive, it would have gone for a burton when I formatted that partition. Does anyone know what is causing this please?
By: andrewm - 21st August 2005 at 15:10
May be a stupid question but is FS9 Disk 4 in your CD/DVD Drive?
By: RobAnt - 21st August 2005 at 00:41
You’ll definitely need to reinstall it, as when you formatted your hard drive you destroyed the system registry. You can install it over your current installation, and all the planes you have will still be there – a reinstallation at the same place should leave addons untouched.
In my experience, running XP, you have to keep D4 in the drive anyway, I’ve never been able to run it any other way.
But, it beggers the question, why did you have to reinstall XP? In my experience XP has been rock solid (that’s not to say some programs haven’t caused it grief (especially some commercially distributed Visual Basic ones (I’m thinking ESRI Map Explorer 2 here – it simply won’t work with many other VB based programs)).
By: Deano - 13th August 2005 at 21:23
Have you got room to install it on the same drive as XP? I’m wondering if there is a registry key left behind from the original install, I wonder if an install on the same disc will make it work, then try deleting it and installing it on M:/
Dean
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August 13, 2005 at 12:32 pm