Update 2: Electric Boogaloo

Regarding my previous update,

Good News: The machine is running again!

Bad News: I've unfortunately had to wipe two of my drives and have lost a bit (Approx 4000-5000 words from Chapter 18 and a fair chunk of my Story Guide) of story data, amongst other things. Lucky, I do have most of my work stored on other devices, though these backups aren't completely up to date.

Dear Princess Celestia:

Today I learned the true meaning of not keeping up-to-date backups.

Pain

Comments

[Dat monster hunting pony]

I know right before I forgot to backup Guild wars 2 to a cloud and I lost my 300 plus hours of game play when I had to wipe my drive.

[MrAskAPirate]

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GW2 is an MMO, shouldn't all that info be stored online?

[Dat monster hunting pony]

2363082 My character data was saved online but I had the disk copy so when I tried to reinstall it wouldn't let me enter the activation code because it was used already the first time I installed the game. Now if I remembered to backup the game to a cloud storage I probably could have just downloaded the game back to the computer without having to enter the activation code.

[MrAskAPirate]

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Huh, that's weird... did you try logging in to the NC soft website itself and downloading a new client from there? Maybe that way it'll recognize you as having an active account. If not you should still be able to put a call into NC Support and have them authorize your account; I mean I had it on three machines at one point but never entered a key but that first time.