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spystyle:
Hello from Maine,

There are a bunch of females in my family, and all have computers. Whenever they brake I have to reinstall the Sims 2, it's 11 games, it's about 20 disks! It's so annoying. Those hours of my life could be saved if I could back up the whole lot...

I figure a person could back up the Sims 2 complete by saving the folders:

C:\program files\EA Games\
C:\Documents and settings\name\my documents\EA Games

Also some registry settings would need to be exported into a REG file.

The data could be 7zipped or RAR'd, incrementally, to fit across 3 DVD-R and it would save hours at reinstall.

Has anyone done that?

Thanks,
Craig

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UPDATE
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OK, I figured it out! Attached is easy to follow instructions :)

shardian:
Dang, how often do they crash their pc's?? You better tell them wimmins to stop lookin up the pornz. :laugh2:

Norton Ghost might be an option for you. Or, you could setup dedicated hardrives for them with the sims on them. A 40 gig HD should hold all of the expansions and everything, right? Maybe even a 20 gig. Then they'd never lose the data and you would just have to reset the links.

ChadTower:

Yeah, if this is the actual need, I'd ghost the hard drive after the clean install.

spystyle:
Well it doesn't happen too often, we probably upgrade more often then crash... But installing all 11 Sims 2... it's like getting teeth pulled... even if it's "once in a blue moon" it feels like often.

I just built a new computer for my niece, I know that will need The Sims 2 to be installed on it...

The real kicker is I know it would be very easy to backup!

As for Norton Ghost, I am not familiar with it but I've heard of it many times. That is to backup the entire hard drive right? Not just The Sims 2?

Thanks,
Craig

ChadTower:

It will do a full OS backup and then you can pick and choose what other content gets backed up.

But really, if this is a constant issue, I'd do what sharidan suggested and get some cheap USB hard drives.  Install the game there, that way when the system gets hosed you can just pop the drive back on later.

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