Katie: My FS9 won't run due to drive letter change....

[Jimbo]

Archived from groups: alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim (More info?)

For some unexplicable reason, Windows XP changed my drive letter
designations. The drive on which I have FS9 running was H:, but suddenly one
higher drive letter was added (K), and there was no longer any H between G
and I drives. What was the H: drive had been re-labelled the I: drive by
XP. So now when I try to run FS9, it starts to load, but then I get an
error message that the .EXE path was not found in the registry. I can
cancel this repeated error message, and go on as far as selecting an
aircraft, but when I do, I get a "ding" error sound, and it refuses to start
loading the selected aircraft. The only reference to Flight Simulator the
registrys' FIND function came up with was under software/microsoft/microsoft
games/flight simulator/9.0. There are two entries there: default (no
value set); and below that , FIRSTRUN value 0x00000001 (1). How can I
force XP to restore my Flight Sim drive to H: as it was? Or how can I
edit my registry to reflect the changed path to FS9.exe?
I have Partition Magic, but I am not sure I am nervy enough to use it, as
some have nicknamed it "partition mangler".
Thanks, Jim

 

[jean]

Archived from groups: alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim (More info?)

At anytime you can change the drive designation letter.

1-Click on Administrative tools
2-Computer Management
3-Storage
4-Disk Management(local)
5-Right Click on the drive you want to change letter designation
6-Change drive letter and path

Last year, I had the same problem and I spend 3 weeks to findout how to
solve that problem and I find that in the XP help menu

Bonne chance !

Jean-Yves


"Jimbo" <jamesw@grandecom.net> a écrit dans le message de news:
39m8g8F6101u1U1@individual.net...
> For some unexplicable reason, Windows XP changed my drive letter
> designations. The drive on which I have FS9 running was H:, but suddenly
> one
> higher drive letter was added (K), and there was no longer any H between G
> and I drives. What was the H: drive had been re-labelled the I: drive by
> XP. So now when I try to run FS9, it starts to load, but then I get an
> error message that the .EXE path was not found in the registry. I can
> cancel this repeated error message, and go on as far as selecting an
> aircraft, but when I do, I get a "ding" error sound, and it refuses to
> start
> loading the selected aircraft. The only reference to Flight Simulator
> the
> registrys' FIND function came up with was under
> software/microsoft/microsoft
> games/flight simulator/9.0. There are two entries there: default (no
> value set); and below that , FIRSTRUN value 0x00000001 (1). How can I
> force XP to restore my Flight Sim drive to H: as it was? Or how can I
> edit my registry to reflect the changed path to FS9.exe?
> I have Partition Magic, but I am not sure I am nervy enough to use it, as
> some have nicknamed it "partition mangler".
> Thanks, Jim
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim (More info?)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;307844 might help?


"Jimbo" <jamesw@grandecom.net> wrote in message
news:39m8g8F6101u1U1@individual.net...
> For some unexplicable reason, Windows XP changed my drive letter
> designations. The drive on which I have FS9 running was H:, but suddenly
> one
> higher drive letter was added (K), and there was no longer any H between G
> and I drives. What was the H: drive had been re-labelled the I: drive by
> XP. So now when I try to run FS9, it starts to load, but then I get an
> error message that the .EXE path was not found in the registry. I can
> cancel this repeated error message, and go on as far as selecting an
> aircraft, but when I do, I get a "ding" error sound, and it refuses to
> start
> loading the selected aircraft. The only reference to Flight Simulator
> the
> registrys' FIND function came up with was under
> software/microsoft/microsoft
> games/flight simulator/9.0. There are two entries there: default (no
> value set); and below that , FIRSTRUN value 0x00000001 (1). How can I
> force XP to restore my Flight Sim drive to H: as it was? Or how can I
> edit my registry to reflect the changed path to FS9.exe?
> I have Partition Magic, but I am not sure I am nervy enough to use it, as
> some have nicknamed it "partition mangler".
> Thanks, Jim
>
>