Backing up Question

[guaterickie]

Hey guys I have a question to ask about what to do for this fresh install. bear with me now. I have currently installed windows vista home prem dual booting with ubuntu 7.10 gutsy (which runs wonderfully might i add). My vista partition has somehow slowed down noticeably and i want to do a fresh install to get rid of some old stuff thats lying around that i dont need. my question is that i have three games currently installed. Halo 2 (this one doesnt matter too much because i have the CD to reinstall), Half Life 2 (this one matters), and World of Warcraft (this one matters too). I dont really have the CD for half life 2 or world of warcraft so im wondering how i can back up the game and save data and just move it to the fresh install once i do so, so taht i can just run it in the fresh install. is this asking too much or what? what can i use to back up and then add the games to the fresh install? will it work? forgot to say that i would be deleting the gutsy partition 2 so i will be wiping the whole hard drive. i havent installed anything on gutsy or customized too much yet so it wont matter. I have two things i can backup to. I have a second IDE hard drive of 10GB capacity and some 4.7GB DVD's laying around that i can use. thanks for any help!

 

[Navid]

For Halo 2 on Vista, backup the Halo 2 Folder from the "Saved Games" folder in your user folder.
You can re-install and activate and it will find the saved games if you restore the folder before re-install.



For Half-Life 2, backup the Steam folder from the "Program Files" folder.
This folder can be really large depending on how many Steam games you have.
After Vista re-install, just copy the Steam folder into the new "Program files" folder.
Then, make a shortcut to "Steam.exe" in the Steam folder and place the shortcut in your start menu.

All your steam games, and customizations, will work fine then.

If you only have one or two games, you can re-install and download the games. But, if you have any customizations, you will have to do all that again.


I have no experience with WOW.