I have windows installed on drive C: and BF2 on drive D:. Now will BF2 work if I format C and install windows again? I guess no because registry will be gone. Can anything be done about that, or was it a bad idea to install BF2 on a separate drive
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Well, this is not so much different than reinstalling BF2 but I guess there is no other way.haven't tried this with bf2, but it worked with bf42:
- make a backup of your bf installation dir
- format.. reinstall windows
- do a basic bf installation
- copy your backup of bf over the new installed one
BF2 registry file is not a separate one (or is it?) but it has entries in windows registry. If I backup windows registry and install it after formatting C:, there will be lots of redundant entries in the registry from the previous installed programs on C:. I wish it was possible to extract only BF2 related entries from the registry and put them in later after formattingWhy don't you just copy the BF2 registry file to your D: Drive, then when you wipe your C: Drive, you simply have to go into your D drive and install the BF2 registry file.
No it's not. My Documents are on F:. Well, I like to mix things upDont forget to make a copy of the Battlefield 2 dir which is in your My Documents dir. If that is on your C drive.