I'm pretty sure I'm going to have get a new hard drive. Now my computer is doing chkdsk on it's own after crashing 3 - 4 times in the last 2 days. Not game crashes, either. How can I save my game so I can resume from where I leave off when they install the hard drive for me? If anyone wants to answer, you will have to do it in some pretty simple words. If that's too much trouble, I'll see if the computer guys can do it for me when I take it in. They won't like it, but I guess if I pay them, they'll do it. (They don't think I should be playing computer games. Too stupid. They may be right.)
Do you have a jump/thumb/flash drive (the kind that plugs into a USB jack)? If so, just copy your saves folder to it and copy it back to the new hard drive later. Or even better (okay maybe not better but it would work), e-mail your saves folder to yourself and let it orbit in cyberspace until you get back up and running.
The repair people charge 50-70 dollars an hour for such things. If you have access to an external hard drive you can save your stuff to it. One save game file will fit on a floppy, so at least save your latest save file. My hard drive crashed so bad I couldn't save anything. I had some floppies with some stuff but that's it. Four years of files-gone. I now own a MyBook 500GB external and I'm saving everything. I do all my own work, but you maybe in for a major expense. You have my sympathy.
Thumb crives are very cheap, and burnable CDs also very cheap. Backing up is very cheap Re your saves, you could deactivate the mod (or activate something else, like KotB or ToEE vanilla). That will create a Co8_5.5.0.tfs file which I believe is where the saves live. The save that. Takes longer but only 1 file to move around, and you only have to move it to the root folder.
I have cds. But I play with the game disk in the drive. Can I still access the tfs file w/o the game disk in the drive? (Remember...lots of things you understand, I don't.) And thanks to everyone, but I still need more info. @wizgeorge...I have a book (recent) on how to build a computer. What's the chance I could succeed using that? (Putting my own hard drive in, I mean.)
100% Why do you think your hard drive is bad? :gotmyatte Have you tried reformatting or disk partion or ... (what else guys?)
Replacing the hard drive is easy. They just plug-in and come with instructions with pictures. You need to determine if the hard drive is bad and must be replaced. If it is, then you need a way to save your stuff to an external source of somekind. The hard part is putting th OS and all the other stuff on the new harddrive. Your computer should have come with an assortment of cd's to re-install the stuff you need. It's a long, touchy process but it can be done. Depends on how you feel about attempting it. It can get to be a time consuming, expensive deal real quick. You might be looking at several hundred dollars for the repair guys. It takes 10 minutes or so to replace the drive in a Dell and countless hours to get everything working. Your call.
Yes, they're separate. When you save a game, a new file is created in the folder, so they don't "go away" when you take off the cd. Actually, a DVD cd has something like 4 gigs of space, so you could simply copy the complete ToEE folder on the cd and keep it safe.
