Flight simulator - Install failure FS9

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Install failure FS9

Wim Dijkgraaf

2005-10-23, 5:31 am

I have re-installed FS9. At startup I get a message: Aircraft initialization
failure 340A White. Anyone knows what to do.
Wim Dijkgraaf

Mohammad Omar

2005-10-23, 5:31 am

Hi Wim!

At last...you reinstall your FS9...sorry to hear that!

Obviously it sound that the aircraft in not properly install or the FS9
it self cannot recognize your aircraft, check aircraft folder for this
type and aircraft.cfg if possible.

My suggestion is;
Create a new flight using FS default aircraft first,
then change it using your addon aircraft...save the flight...set it as
default flight. Restart your FS...see what happen next.

or...exit FS9

In your Windows Explorer...go to your FS folder eg; FS2004\Flights\....
double click any of the *.FLT file...to load any builtin FS flight
situation.

\FS2004\Flights\Other...MEIGS.FLT is "classic" FS default flight
situation since FS5.0

Use this flight situation then check if 340A White is listed in your
aircraft list...if so change it then save this flight as default.

restart FS9.

Have a try!...happy landing.

Mohammad Omar.

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Wim Dijkgraaf

2005-10-23, 7:34 pm

First of all I changed the partition spec from FAT32 to NTSF. After that I
installed FS9 beside the first one. I went to NZ-Christchurch and noticed
that the rectangulars changed into subjects. Sofar so good. Now I am trying
to bring my FS9 into the same chape which is not successfull sofar. But I do
not yet accept the fact that I have to uninstall/reinstall and lost all the
extra's.
Keeps my from the street.

Wim Dijkgraaf

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quote:

> Hi Wim!
>
> At last...you reinstall your FS9...sorry to hear that!
>
> Obviously it sound that the aircraft in not properly install or the FS9
> it self cannot recognize your aircraft, check aircraft folder for this
> type and aircraft.cfg if possible.
>
> My suggestion is;
> Create a new flight using FS default aircraft first,
> then change it using your addon aircraft...save the flight...set it as
> default flight. Restart your FS...see what happen next.
>
> or...exit FS9
>
> In your Windows Explorer...go to your FS folder eg; FS2004\Flights\....
> double click any of the *.FLT file...to load any builtin FS flight
> situation.
>
> \FS2004\Flights\Other...MEIGS.FLT is "classic" FS default flight
> situation since FS5.0
>
> Use this flight situation then check if 340A White is listed in your
> aircraft list...if so change it then save this flight as default.
>
> restart FS9.
>
>
> Have a try!...happy landing.
>
>
> Mohammad Omar.
>
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Tom Orle

2005-10-23, 7:35 pm

"Wim Dijkgraaf" <wim.dijkgraaf@pandora.be> wrote:

quote:

>I have re-installed FS9. At startup I get a message: Aircraft initialization
>failure 340A White. Anyone knows what to do.
>Wim Dijkgraaf

One reason might be that the last flight you saved and made default
used a plane that your new install no longer has!

If that's the problem, open fs9.cfg and remove a line that looks like
this:
"SITUATION=C:\My Documents\Flight Simulator Files\xxxx"

where xxx is the name of your last saved and defaulted flight.

Or, once you're past the error message, just save a new flight as
default. Then you won't get that message again.

-=tom=-

Handsome

2005-10-23, 7:35 pm

So whats all that got to do with the original query?

Mohammad Omar

2005-10-24, 2:32 am

Hi! Wim,

Shifting from FAT32 to NTFS is a wise decision since I know you are
using WinXP and take the advantage of this New Technology File System
that WinXP can offer.

But reinstall FS9 into its original folder is not the correct choice
since I know you only having trouble with the previous installation just
because of addon scenery problem, this isn't help very much because the
new installation will override all your configuration settings as well
as it also overrides all those downloaded texture enhancements that
replace your default textures earlier. Significantly it of course
overrides your scenery.cfg and fs9.cfg that caused your FS9 is not
taking shape from what you been expecting as from the previous
installation.

Moreover uninstall the previous FS9 also is not an astute judgment
either, as this will delete it's all default files together with all
downloaded enhancement files that FS consider they are it's own files as
those enhancement files always using FS original file name. On the other
hand the advantage of using this method is that FS will leave all addons
files remain on its folder. Thus you know what addons have been added to
your previous installation and for some reasons a number of these addons
files might or might not been deleted during uninstall process.

My recommendation is renaming the previous installation folder.
Something like;

F:\Flight Simulator 2004 => F:\Flight Simulator 2004 Backup

Ignore WinXP prompt which saying; "Renaming, moving or deleting "Flight
Simulator 2004" could make some programs not work. Are you sure to do
this?

Click YES. In my case I never come across this message.

Then start reinstall FS9 using the same drive and the previous folder
name i.e; F:\Flight Simulator 2004

Consider using this method you should have a lot of disk space remaining
as FS9 full installation requires a space of about 3.5 GB and from this
amount try to recalculate if your still have another 15% of free space
from your total HD capacity. This enables WinXP use the extra 15% of
free space for file defragmentation activity with efficient.

Using this method a least you don't lose any single file in your
pervious FS installation, and now consider which addon files need to
move into this new installation folder, move one by one (folder by
folder)! Starting with aircraft addons folder and let all addons scenery
be the last one.

Then if you think its time to safe delete your previous FS installation,
you may do so and last always defrag your drive.

MO.

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