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Upgraded to Windows 10 and tried to Install FSX |
DVA7956
Captain, A320
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478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online
473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS
70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 03 2015 20:10 ET by Scott Bradley
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..and got the dreaded "Windows Installation Error 1628". I looked at the Internet forums enough to know that some folks have problems and some don't. I can't go back to Windows 7 because it has been a month. Darn you Microsoft. My solution is to get another HDD and install Win 7 on it and boot from that disk when I want to run FSX. Use my other HDD (the one with Win 10) as a storage device. Once I get Win 7 and FSX running again, then I might try upgrading to Win 10. Not sure I get a free Win 10 the second time. No questions, just a little whine about little things that should be easy, but seldom are. Other than FSX - Win 10 is great. Disappointed that Microsoft can't build installers that recognize whatever my problem is - and I know I am not alone. I shouldn't have to be a computer expert to make computers run.
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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DVA9513
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on February 16 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
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Sugar Land, TX USA
145 legs, 288.9 hours
39 legs,
69.5 hours online
135 legs,
271.4 hours ACARS
18 legs,
31.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 04 2015 15:06 ET by Michael Lacaze
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Be careful with installing 2 OS's on one computer with Win 10. See my post about the issues that I had.
http://www.deltava.org/thread.do?id=0x1ebf2
Michael LacazeCaptain, B757-200
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DVA7956
Captain, A320
OLP
Joined on November 05 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
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"Swing on a star"
Manassas, VA USA
478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online
473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS
70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 04 2015 19:02 ET by Scott Bradley
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Oh my goodness - you've had quite the time. I really don't want Win 10 anymore, but I did not want to re-install Win 7 over the top. In theory I should be able to reinstall on top and not lose any personal files. I have lots of personal files and I am not sure I trust the OS to know which is which. I figured I'd install Win 7 on a clean disk. I would boot from that drive and the second drive (with Win 10) would just look like a second disk. Are you saying that if I switch the order of my boot disk, and I boot from the Win 10 disk - that it takes over and starts to do a number on the second disk? The Win 10 disk doesn't even know FSX exists.
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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DVA7956
Captain, A320
OLP
Joined on November 05 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
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Quatercentenary Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"Swing on a star"
Manassas, VA USA
478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online
473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS
70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 08 2015 15:34 ET by Scott Bradley
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I tried to have 2 operating systems and thought I had carried off - and then one of my on-line games wouldn't work on the WIN10 side. That was the last straw - spent most of yesterday getting back to WIN7 and getting all my flying software back to speed. Yeah...things are looking good.
Also, Michael - I did notice that when I booted in WIN7 the OS wanted to do a chkdsk on the other drive. I wouldn't let it scan - cause I wasn't sure what was going to happen. It is OBE now that I am back in WIN7.
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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DVA9513
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on February 16 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
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Sugar Land, TX USA
145 legs, 288.9 hours
39 legs,
69.5 hours online
135 legs,
271.4 hours ACARS
18 legs,
31.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 09 2015 14:13 ET by Michael Lacaze
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Scott, from my experience when installing Win10 on a PC that has a bootable OS on another hard drive Win10 wants to automatically set up a dual boot system rather than leaving the OS's separate. Also, that setting to do a quick boot somehow locks the drives on the PC so that if another OS tries to access it, it thinks that the drive is corrupt. If you let chkdsk run it will remove thousands of indexes on the drive and effectively wipe it out.
Supposedly, you could either not let Win10 do dual boot by removing the drive for the other OS before the intall, or, not use quick boot in Win10 once installed but none of that worked for me. Eventually it would see something wrong and try to scan the disk. Since I removed the Win7 os and disk I have not had any more issues. And, Win10 is pretty stable on my machine now.
Michael LacazeCaptain, B757-200
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DVA7956
Captain, A320
OLP
Joined on November 05 2009
50 State Club
Event Half Century Club
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"Swing on a star"
Manassas, VA USA
478 legs, 905.6 hours
259 legs,
494.7 hours online
473 legs,
893.0 hours ACARS
70 legs,
123.9 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 09 2015 17:29 ET by Scott Bradley
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Michael Lacaze wrote:
Scott, from my experience when installing Win10 on a PC that has a bootable OS on another hard drive Win10 wants to automatically set up a dual boot system rather than leaving the OS's separate. Also, that setting to do a quick boot somehow locks the drives on the PC so that if another OS tries to access it, it thinks that the drive is corrupt. If you let chkdsk run it will remove thousands of indexes on the drive and effectively wipe it out.
Supposedly, you could either not let Win10 do dual boot by removing the drive for the other OS before the intall, or, not use quick boot in Win10 once installed but none of that worked for me. Eventually it would see something wrong and try to scan the disk. Since I removed the Win7 os and disk I have not had any more issues. And, Win10 is pretty stable on my machine now.
I would eventually want to go to WIN10. I had no luck with the FSX installer in WIN10. I could tell by the forums that some folks had luck and others did not. I may eventually get a new HDD and put WIN10 on it - either by upgrading from a nice clean WIN7 install, or installing WIN10 fresh. Right now, things work and I am going to let sleeping dogs lie.
Scott BradleyCaptain, A320
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DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
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5,015.2 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 10 2015 17:15 ET by Thiago Braga
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Scott;
Maybe you want to look my thread first about installing fresh WIN10: http://deltava.org/thread.do?id=0x1f04e
The best way is to install the windows 7 or 8 first.
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DVA9513
Captain, B757-200
OLP
Joined on February 16 2011
50 State Club
Century Club
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DVA Five-Year Anniversary
Sugar Land, TX USA
145 legs, 288.9 hours
39 legs,
69.5 hours online
135 legs,
271.4 hours ACARS
18 legs,
31.1 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 19 2015 16:24 ET by Michael Lacaze
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I agree that if it's working you may want to leave it alone. I went with FSX-SE when I installed Win10 so I had no issues with the install. In my case my Win7 system starting having problems with FSX-SE and I could not correct them so I had no choice but to do a full re-install. If it wasn't for that I would still be on Win7.
Michael LacazeCaptain, B757-200
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