New Hard Drive

[Dadorail]

Recently my hard drive crashed and I have now fitted a new one. Fortunately everything was backed up on a portable drive so nothing has been lost, as using Ubuntu I could transfer to the portable drive. Previously I had a factory installed 64 bit windows 7 but having now needed to reload with a windows cd I am using 32 bit. My question is,if I install msts and trainstore onto the new hdd, and then replace the new train simulator folder with my old one copied one from the external hdd containing my loaded route/activites will it be playable? Fingers crossed, as I would not look forward to reloading everything.

Many thanks

[slipperman12]

Hi Dadorail,
The short answer is "Yes"
Just be sure to install MSTS according to the Steam4Me tutorial : http://msts.steam4me.net/tutorials/inst ... ts_w7.html (but you probably know that already!)
If your new system uses Win 10, you might have trouble installing CD2 - see my post here : http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic. ... &sk=t&sd=a

Cheers,
Ged

[Dadorail]

Great news and thanks. I will give it a try

[dforrest]

Some years ago I had the same situation.

I installed MSTS from the CDs to the same location I had it on the old hard drive and then completely manually deleted it. The left to registry entry only which is what I needed.

I then copied the whole of my backup of MSTS to this location and it worked perfectly.

A for Train Store, I think the best thing is to reinstall and set it up completely after doing what I have noted above.

I hope this helps.

[rogermatthews]

The only problem I have had reinstalling the way you suggest is with certain commercial routes, particularly when updating for some reason, eg when I upgraded Great Eastern to Greater Eastern, the upgrade told me the original wasn't installed! Presumably it was looking for the original registry entries.

Other than that, I find this by far the best way to put everything back after a major crash.

Roger

[dforrest]

Roger, if you are referring to my suggestion you should not need to re-install anything, just to copy the backup you say you have the the correct location.

[rogermatthews]

Yes, fair enough if you've just removed the route for some reason, in fact I often shift routes to a temp location just to speed up TrainStore. I was referring to a complete reinstall of Windows, as we all experience from time to time!

After a reinstall, all routes seem to work fine just by copying across from a backup, but with certain commercial disks, when you come to upgrade, it won't do it because the upgrade disk/download will tell you that you don't have the route! I'm presuming it's looking for the registry entries.

I stress I've only had this a couple of times with commercial disks and it only applies if the registry entries have been deleted, ie after a reinstall of windows.

Roger