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Flight Simulator Retail Version "Please insert Flight Simulator Game Disk"

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Products:

  • Microsoft Flight Simulator

Symptoms:

  1. When starting the game it asks for the game disk to be installed, I installed the game using the retail DVD's, however that was with an external DVD drive which I don't always have connected.

Causes:

  1. The retail disk version of Flight Simulator required the disk to be in the computer to play, even if your licence key has been activated on the Microsoft Store... but there is an officially supported way to get around this...

Solutions:

  1. The official support page says we need to create an ISO file on your computer... an ISO is just a copy of the DVD that is saved as a file on your computer's hard drive.
    (source: https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015985699-Microsoft-Store-version-Please-insert-the-Microsoft-Flight-Simulator-Game-Disc-Error-message)

    INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO DO THIS:
    A generous fellow flight simmer posted instructions on how they did this for people who are not familiar with the process, PDF instructions are attached, and the link to the original post is below:
    https://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/155508-create-an-iso-of-dvd-disk-1-so-you-dont-have-to-have-it-inserted-every-time/&_fromLogin=1

    Full credit on this one goes to the Flight Sim Aerosoft forum user Starlord9991967 (linked above)