I just bought a larger SSD M.2 NVMe, cloned it but MSFS 2020 will not run. "MSFS can't open...

Hey Enrique!

Nice to meet you! I'm Darhyl, an Independent Advisor. I'm sorry you are experiencing this on your Microsoft Flight Simulator game. I am here to help.

Gamer Educational-Depth248 posted a solution to a user who had a similar issue:

"Settings>Apps>Apps and Features, and scroll down the list o apps and games until you find the one you are looking for, click on it, and click 'reset' This will require an install from a game pass or the Microsoft store, but you are only installing a small amount of the game's actual storage, so it will take about 5 minutes."

Try to perform the following steps above to see if it works.

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most of microsofts games are encrypted, simply cloning a drive wont work, you would have to do a full clone of the drive then make that drive the same drive letter as the previous one, and even then it may not work.

basically it has to be an expensive proprietory ssd that is basically a version of m.2 nvme.

Well, that would best option as you mentioned however I'll be straight with you. I am a professional corporate pilot and I do have a new Airplane assigned Longitude 700 (apparently MSFS 2020 Deluxe Premium version has it) and really getting new systems, especially G5000 differences the best option is really commercial Training software that really is not available for any of plane. So laptop is the best option for moving machines around and using downtime to cover systems. I just hope that all options and buttons and G5000 screens and options are functional in MSFS 2020, Longitude type.

If you have a better and more portable gaming laptop that will run MSFS 2020, and get limited upgrade options, I'll definitely jump on it right away.

Thanks

are you running it on a nvme ssd as that game requires a fast nvme ssd to run.