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Crawdaddy79
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Joined: 24 Apr 2002
Posts: 84
Location: USA |
So I got a virus that prevented me from getting into Windows.
So, naturally I wiped my smaller hard drive... The 'C' drive . Which I didn't mind too much, because nearly everything that was on it was salvagable through downloading, etc.
So, I go to re-install Dungeon Seige (so that it registers itself in the erm.. registry), thinking I'll be able to pick up where I left off, because it was... after all... in my D drive.
BUT NO!!!! As it turns out, Microsoft says 'Screw you , buddy! Thanks for the fifty bucks!' by having Dungeon Seige's save games go to the 'My Documents' folder (which happens to be in the 'C' drive). So that's it. 30 hours of eye-candy gaming gone. Now I'm thinking I should uninstall it for good. While it was fun going through killing monsters with the click of a button, it gets old after an hour or so... But thinking back... the first five hours or so were the most fun. Maybe I'll start over... ehhhh I'll pick up Morrowind and see if that strays me... |
Mon Jul 15, 2002 5:59 pm |
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vaticide
Put food in here
Joined: 21 Feb 2002
Posts: 1122
Location: One step behind a toddler bent on destruction. |
D'oh! Sorry to hear that. You can change the directory it stuffs your savegames, however they don't tell you that in the manual or anything...
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Mon Jul 15, 2002 6:36 pm |
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txiabxyooj
Fox Spirit
Joined: 06 Dec 2001
Posts: 971
Location: here, there & everywhere |
that stinks. maxpayne does the same thing. i decided to reformat my c drive before i installed xp, fortunately i copied mydocuments folder to a zip disk first. phew! it saved my bacon. but, i guess with a computer total shut down situation you are SOL.
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Tue Jul 16, 2002 5:55 pm |
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Crawdaddy79
Village Leader
Joined: 24 Apr 2002
Posts: 84
Location: USA |
Heh, that's another thing!!!
I periodically make copies of all my save games/pictures/work onto a CD, but Windows XP for some reason recognizes all the disks I made as blank!
I'm sure I tested each one I made after I made it, so I'm going to see if they work on a friends computer who's still running '98. Hopefully I'll be able to get some of my stuff back.. |
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Tue Jul 16, 2002 10:20 pm |
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TribalMan
Conflict Within
Joined: 04 Jan 2002
Posts: 681
Location: Neither Here Nor There |
I have never heard of that before. I have been recording cd's for...hmmm...seven years or so starting with WIN95. I have always been able to read the cd's on any MS OS including XP. I don't see how that could be OS related. Well hopefully for your sake it is a driver issue. I guess that could be a great possibility. I had an old CD-ROM years ago that could not read CD-RW. Maybe something similar to that. Check you CD-ROM/R/RW/DVD vendor and see if they have special drivers for XP compatibility issues.
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Sat Jul 20, 2002 4:39 pm |
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Crawdaddy79
Village Leader
Joined: 24 Apr 2002
Posts: 84
Location: USA |
It's gotta be OS related one way or another.
The files were recorded using Adaptec Direct CD, which would lock up my computer about 75% of the time... So I'm sure that had at least a little something to do with it.
As far as compatablility goes... It's simply said that the Windows XP drivers are good enough to run the drives, so they don't worry with it. |
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Sat Jul 20, 2002 8:22 pm |
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Crawdaddy79
Village Leader
Joined: 24 Apr 2002
Posts: 84
Location: USA |
Wow.... You are the king of spammers! I take that back, I've seen much worse..
At the rate I'm going I'd have 500 posts in 2 and a half years! |
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Sat Nov 30, 2002 9:30 pm |
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