WOW : Recovering Serials from corrupt HD

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Ok, I have a friend, who is one of those who seems to live for WarCraft.

Their HD got corrupted the other day and they tried to recover stuff but made a huge mess of it and I have had it now and I have saved all the WarCraft files etc, ( over 80GB of the bloody stuff ) and I have now reinstalled windows for them, partitioning the drive this time so I can put WOW onto D: instead of the usual all their eggs in one basket, and the WarCraft backed up files are now on D:, however, when it come to reinstalling WOW, she is missing a few disks.

Now, let me also at this point add, that her 2 sons also have WOW each, so, she should have 3 of each disk, but she only has 2, the issue being that her serials are on the disks cases, so we are not missing the disks themselves.

Anyway, I was wondering, if the WOW serials are stored in the files, or if they were help in the registry or wherever, and could it be possible to recover them?

I said to her, that she should be able to contact the game makers and let them know her situation and they should be able to help her... Especially as she knows her character, and her login details etc, plus she can prove that she has 3 entire sets of the whole lot, but is only missing a couple of disks, so... Its not stuff that she does not already use, its for an install.

Anyway, if anyone can offer me somethign to help out, Id be grateful as heck.

Thanks.

Oh, before I go...

All of this backed up junk... Can I use it for anything?

Im kind of thinking that if I install WOW onto where this is, then perhaps WOW will automatically use it rather than D/L it, for teh upgrades etc... Or shall I just delete it?
 
FatRakoon said:
Ok, I have a friend, who is one of those who seems to live for WarCraft.

Their HD got corrupted the other day and they tried to recover stuff but made a huge mess of it and I have had it now and I have saved all the WarCraft files etc, ( over 80GB of the bloody stuff ) and I have now reinstalled windows for them, partitioning the drive this time so I can put WOW onto D: instead of the usual all their eggs in one basket, and the WarCraft backed up files are now on D:, however, when it come to reinstalling WOW, she is missing a few disks.

Now, let me also at this point add, that her 2 sons also have WOW each, so, she should have 3 of each disk, but she only has 2, the issue being that her serials are on the disks cases, so we are not missing the disks themselves.

Anyway, I was wondering, if the WOW serials are stored in the files, or if they were help in the registry or wherever, and could it be possible to recover them?

I said to her, that she should be able to contact the game makers and let them know her situation and they should be able to help her... Especially as she knows her character, and her login details etc, plus she can prove that she has 3 entire sets of the whole lot, but is only missing a couple of disks, so... Its not stuff that she does not already use, its for an install.

Anyway, if anyone can offer me somethign to help out, Id be grateful as heck.

Thanks.

Oh, before I go...

All of this backed up junk... Can I use it for anything?

Im kind of thinking that if I install WOW onto where this is, then perhaps WOW will automatically use it rather than D/L it, for teh upgrades etc... Or shall I just delete it?
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I assume we r talking World of Warcraft. If thats the case then ur friend no doubt has a Battlenet ID and login and in there whatever flavour of WoW they had it will be linked to their account. In there you can also DL the client. No need for Disks or Serials
 
WoW serials aren't stored anywhere, the game doesn't even need to be installed, it has no registry entries. You can just paste a WoW folder onto a PC and play it.
 
my wow folder is 24gig, fresh install from the other day via download only. I should imagine a lot of it was compressed tho.
 
Ok many thanks guys...

Yes sorry World Of WarCraft is the game, but you knew that.

Well this is clearly full of other junk then isnt it?

Erm, well ok, this is great news, this is similar to the steam games then... Ok, much better.

Can anyone tell me the name of the client? Its bound to be here... There is all the patches and updates all here too!

What I have done, is simply saved the C:\Program Files\WOW\ and its everything in there really.

Can I just move this lot to say..

D:\Games\WOW and create a shortcut?

And it will work?

If not, ( and a fresh install might actually be a good idea really ) then whats the name of teh client in case its on here somewhere already?

Many thanks guys.
 
You should be able to move it then run WOW.exe - I think there is a repair option inside that folder as well. (Repair install.exe or some such thing).



M.
 
Brilliant... I ahve her PC here and I will do this and see if I cant sort it out for her while I am here, rather than mess about over there.

She's a sweet lady, but ultimately seems to not kinow the difference between this word and the WOW... Kind of a real life version of the SouthPark WarCraft episode LOL

If she keeps it up, Im going to have to slap her with my Paladins glove of slapping with a +5 Level 8 spanking spell

Yeah, ok, AD&D is a long time ago you know and Im not into WOW, so sue me.
 
Yes, I am sure its done it...

I moved the entire folder into D:\Games\ and I looked at what files were in there...

I found that Repair.exe as mentioned by m4cc45 and I run that... It said a few things and then a few minutes later ( didnt time it ) it said ok!

I saw 2 files that I thought why not, and wow.exe runs the game, and launcher.exe runs a kind of menu thingy first.

So, I have made a shortcut to LAUNCHER.EXE - I had to adjust the icon and I used the standard WOW.ICN for it and its now peachy.

Looks quite impressive actually... Big huge dragon on the intro... Kind of made out of rock.fire with a metal jaw - sweet.

So, I have not played it... Last thing she needs is to build up a level 85 warrior and then fat schmucko here has a quick go and ... Well... we know what happens next!

Anyway, many many thanks guys... Its saved her ( that will mean me ) a hell of a lot of time re-installing it all.

I owe you all a pint.
 
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