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I have flown this plane before with no problems and love it, but after moving my FSX installation from my C drive to my other hard drive and using the FSX registry tool and reinstalling the spitfire I find that some things are no longer clickable.

When I open the payload and fuel manager the AIR and fuel is not clickable, and neither is the engine overhaul button in the hanger. I can click and repair 2 or 3 items but not everything.

I am using Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 and have turned off the auto mixture, ive tried creating a new flight instead of just loading the plane into an existing saved flight but nothing works. If I try the auto engine start I get a puff of smoke but no prop movement.

Im guessing that my only option is to reinstall FSX but its not really an option with so many addons and planes to reinstall again.

Thanks very much for any help.

Ive realised my problem is related to the fact that the format on C drive has lost all the registry keys to FSX, so basically sim connect isnt registered in win7 and I cant repair it as described in the FAQ.

I guess the only fix is to install FSX, sp1 and fsx acceleration on the C drive then after installation delete the FSX folder on C drive and use the reg fix tool to tell win7 to look at my D drive.

If there is an alternative to doing this id love to hear about it.
Thanks guys.

really really really bad idea to simply copy paste a working installation of a sim. Always always always, install, uninstall and reinstall. Unless its a real simplistic game coded a certain way a copy/paste will not work and or will always result in errors. (As an IT techie cannot stress this enough)

Best thing you can do is to reinstall correctly using the installer, and if using win7 64bit make sure to run the installer and the sim as administrator by right clicking the installer/shortcut and selecting run as administrator.

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Thanks Lewis, you are right of course, but I wanted an easy way of saving all my addons/planes within FSX before reinstalling win7. I knew I would have problems and hoped I could iron them out with a bit of googling.

Ive fixed it now, to get it to work I installed FSX, sp1 and fsx acceleration on the C drive, then I installed the spitfire on the D drive FSX installation and deleted the FSX C drive installation and all is now working well. It was so nice to hear that engine after hearing a silent cockpit for so long lol

Thanks to everyone for basically confirming what I was trying to do was impossible.

Hi Spitfire joe
I'd recomend leaving FSX on the C drive and to install all photo sceneries which use a lot of space on another drive, it makes life much easier and I believe it even speeds up your system.

Happy flights

M. Jordan

i have downloaded a2a spitfire but when i want to fly it all i can see is a cockpit and a pilot how do i fix?

i have downloaded a2a spitfire but when i want to fly it all i can see is a cockpit and a pilot how do i fix?

As is clearly stated..you need SP2 or Acceleration. This is the number one (only?) cause of the aircraft exhibiting this behaviour.

Install SP2 or if you have, reinstall..it obviously has not taken,

Post back with your results and in the unlikely event that it does not resolve, someone will look at it for you.

Darryl

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thanks it works perfect now. cheers for help.