Losing heroes of Might and magic savegames

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 23 Oct 2007, 16:41

Due to a stupid virus a had to completely re-install my computer and therefor losing all of my "hard worked for" savegames from Heroes of Might and Magic 1, 2 (and POL) , 3 (AB and SOD) and 4 (complete)

The polls question is how bad it sucks.

And to talk about this bad experience ofcourse...

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 23 Oct 2007, 18:28

Where's the Stupid (i don't have a backup drive/disk etc.) option?

Pol · Unread postby **Pol** » 23 Oct 2007, 19:30

Bad, but impossible for me. As long as I have backup cd. Unfortunatelly I haven't everything important backuped.

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 24 Oct 2007, 00:37

ThunderTitan wrote:Where's the Stupid (i don't have a backup drive/disk etc.) option?

Yeah, didn't thought of that one

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Now i made my hd into 2 partitions, important games are kept on the other one

pepak · Unread postby **pepak** » 24 Oct 2007, 09:50

That won't help you when (notice: "when", not "if") your harddisk dies.

Let's say I don't feel all that comfortable even with RAID5 and two backups (external harddisk and a DVD). I aim for three external harddisks (one at home, one in a bank's security box, one in a different town).

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 24 Oct 2007, 12:04

pepak wrote:That won't help you when (notice: "when", not "if") your harddisk dies.

Let's say I don't feel all that comfortable even with RAID5 and two backups (external harddisk and a DVD). I aim for three external harddisks (one at home, one in a bank's security box, one in a different town).

Dude, that's sick

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 24 Oct 2007, 12:15

pepak wrote:That won't help you when (notice: "when", not "if") your harddisk dies.

If your HDD dies before you change your PC you must have bought a crappy HDD... and disk covers floppy, compact, digital versatile... (interesting, wiki says that they use "disc" for CD's and DVD's, how silly)

ByteBandit · Unread postby **ByteBandit** » 25 Oct 2007, 00:02

Yeah, I backup anything real important for any Heroes game on CD's or DVD's. I never distribute them, they are for my own personal use only.

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 25 Oct 2007, 12:33

ByteBandit wrote:Yeah, I backup anything real important for any Heroes game on CD's or DVD's. I never distribute them, they are for my own personal use only.

Well, i started a map years ago for savegames. Too bad i never updated that one, so now i miss olmost everything important

, it sucks!

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 25 Oct 2007, 15:59

Of course next time someone's one drive PC gets infected they might want to invest in a bootable-from-CD OS... that way even if you can't access your primary OS you can still copy the files you want on floppy or whatever.

Kildars · Unread postby **Kildars** » 27 Oct 2007, 14:43

It really sucks to lose any Heroes saves because even 1 map takes normally 2 to 3 hours, not to mention those extra big maps......

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 27 Oct 2007, 19:28

Kildars wrote:It really sucks to lose any Heroes saves because even 1 map takes normally 2 to 3 hours, not to mention those extra big maps......

Indeed, really crap

MistWeaver · Unread postby **MistWeaver** » 27 Oct 2007, 23:30

Im sorry, but why didnt you copy your savegames somewhere before "re-installing" your my computer ?

Kildars · Unread postby **Kildars** » 28 Oct 2007, 00:10

I suppose he got some really serious virus infection that makes you even unable to login to the windows.
I myself had a similar experience while playing H5...if it weren't that serious I believe no one would to so stupid as to forget that he could backup the save data before formatting...no?

MistWeaver · Unread postby **MistWeaver** » 28 Oct 2007, 01:07

Kildars wrote:I suppose he got some really serious virus infection that makes you even unable to login to the windows.
I myself had a similar experience while playing H5...if it weren't that serious I believe no one would to so stupid as to forget that he could backup the save data before formatting...no?

He could start up with some live/boot cd in that case.

Yurian Stonebow · Unread postby **Yurian Stonebow** » 28 Oct 2007, 09:31

Well you know, it's a crappy thing to happen but the good side of it is that you can concentrate on replaying the mission(s) and hopefully better this time. I mean that to myself, at least, it is a major victory to beat my previous records.

Good luck with starting over again.

Maybe you can then return to WoW. ("Winds of War")

Yurian

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 29 Oct 2007, 09:38

Hahaha, we all know i meant World of Warcraft

CoffeeGnome · Unread postby **CoffeeGnome** » 30 Oct 2007, 23:42

I admit I have not played heroes of MM since #2 but i used to suffer from a glitch in which I lost saved games from HoMM2 all of the time. After a while I got frustrated and started playing starcraft. Have there been many reoccourances of these problems with any of the HoMM3, HoMM4, or HoMM5, so I know what ones to avoid?

darknessfood · Unread postby **darknessfood** » 31 Oct 2007, 14:49

CoffeeGnome wrote:I admit I have not played heroes of MM since #2 but i used to suffer from a glitch in which I lost saved games from HoMM2 all of the time. After a while I got frustrated and started playing starcraft. Have there been many reoccourances of these problems with any of the HoMM3, HoMM4, or HoMM5, so I know what ones to avoid?

Well, i never had that

. But it's really weird and anoying!

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