I want My games back!!!!!!!

Hey guys
Well the problem is that i just formatted my whole system and did a fresh install of XP but before i did that i copied the save games of NFS underground from my documents to another folder. I was thinking that the game takes the user profile from my documents only. But to my shock it just wont recognise my old profiles. I dont wanna race a dodge neon again! Can someone please please please help me here?
And the second game that's troubling me is GTA vice city. just did a new install. played for a night. Then when i woke up the next day the game just wouldnt start. whenever i click on the icon it just reads something and then nohting happens That's really wierd coz i even tried uninstall and reinstall.
HELP? PLEASE!!!!!!
thanks

<font color=blue>Support bacteria, That's the only culture some people have </font color=blue><font color=red><b><i>JayKay</font color=red></b></i>

Did you patch any of your games the first time? Did you apply the same patches to the new installation? Make sure your new installation is at the same revision level.

Perhaps you missed some files when backed up. I've uninstalled NFS and reinstalled so I know old profiles do work.

On the other hand, my original installation was unpatched and the NFS uninstall process left all profiles intact. All I did was move the complete directory structure to another partition and reinstalled NFS to the new location. Not quite the same as backing up save games and profiles and trying to add them later.

If patching alone doesn't work. You could try to install NFS again, bring it up to what ever revision you originally used, create profiles with the exact same names as before, then copy in your backed up profiles. Maybe that will work.

I don't own GTA but one problem I ran into with NFS is after I reinstalled it I finally got around to updating it. That was a mistake. The latest update (at the time) seemed to contain an updated copy protection detector. The game stopped working with my original game discs. These are not copies but a genuine purchased game.

I later learned that the copy protection detector blacklisted my CloneCD virtual drive. Uninstalling CloneCD was the fix. Of course, I only use CloneCD for legitimate backup purposes. (I'm not kidding).

The new detection is also much more sensitive to CD/DVD/CDRW drives. The game discs only work in a couple of my drives.

I don't think this is related to your GTA problem. It was just a warning about NFS updates.


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To bad.

I loved the demo of NFSU. Bought it and got bored about halfway thru it.

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