[agracier]

You can pull your old Raptor 74 GB hard drive out, put in a new hard drive,then go to like to a Best Buy store and get a Thermaltake - SATA Hard Drive Docking Station with eSATA and USB Connection or something like it, and make your old hard drive into a external.You can put whatever you want on it I have 3 different IL2 installations on external hard drives and they run fine.

I've never been able to run any copies of Il-2 on external hard drives. is there anything that needs to be done to make them playable from an external?