03-26-2005, 04:46 PM
It's a little hard to read your problem with so little formatting, but it sounds like you have some serious problems. First, never play v1.00 ever. IIRC, v1.04 was the first version that didn't have horribly sucky bugs. That said, some well formatted and well explained background would be helpful. Specifically:
* What version of Diablo did you install from your friend's disk? Some disks issued with the v1.04 patch, others issued with v1.00.
* What is your current version of Diablo?
* Under what version(s) of Diablo were your now-corrupted characters played?
* How did your system get infected with virii? I go years at a time without even getting virus warnings, much less actual virii. [Note: if you're an IE user, just saying so will answer this question quite nicely.]
* When was the last time you successfully used your characters? (and this answer is meaningful if and only if your computer clock is correct) v1.00 had a really stupid bug that caused weird things to happen around change of DST.
If I had to guess right now, I'd say you're trying to load v1.00 characters in a much later version of Diablo and it's not working correctly. If this is the case, you might be able to recover the characters by reverting to v1.00, then applying the patches while the characters are installed. However, I'd really recommend staying away from v1.00 if you can avoid it.
* What version of Diablo did you install from your friend's disk? Some disks issued with the v1.04 patch, others issued with v1.00.
* What is your current version of Diablo?
* Under what version(s) of Diablo were your now-corrupted characters played?
* How did your system get infected with virii? I go years at a time without even getting virus warnings, much less actual virii. [Note: if you're an IE user, just saying so will answer this question quite nicely.]
* When was the last time you successfully used your characters? (and this answer is meaningful if and only if your computer clock is correct) v1.00 had a really stupid bug that caused weird things to happen around change of DST.
If I had to guess right now, I'd say you're trying to load v1.00 characters in a much later version of Diablo and it's not working correctly. If this is the case, you might be able to recover the characters by reverting to v1.00, then applying the patches while the characters are installed. However, I'd really recommend staying away from v1.00 if you can avoid it.