edit: you might as well ignore this since Pete has directed you to a guide, I'll leave my ramblings here anyway, just in case you want to bore yourself silly.
blech! I just spent the last 20 minutes typing out a detailed post and IE promptly crashed!
to condense:
D1 saves: multi_#.sv and single_#.sv (where # is a number beween 0 & 9) found kicking around loose in the D1 folder, pre version 1.08 the multi's were in the windows folder.
if it's only multi's, you can comfortably copy 20 onto floppy disk, I've seen single get to over 2Mb, which could be fun, without CDR, ZIP disk etc. if you've got a decent bandwidth connection, it won't be too hard to get a geocities website account, upload them there, and then get them back once the reformat is complete.
D2 nic mostly said it, but remeber that closed realm characters are stored on battle.net anyway, so there's no need to worry.
restoration:
reinstall the games, get latest patch, copy files back to the same places that they were on the old installations
NB D1 doesn't seem to be able to find Bnet to get the latest patcj with a fresh install, you need to update manually from the Battle.net website
if you have problems copying from inside windows (i.e. windows goes completely pear shaped, just say the word and I'm sure a few of us can help you do it from DOS)
-Bob
blech! I just spent the last 20 minutes typing out a detailed post and IE promptly crashed!
to condense:
D1 saves: multi_#.sv and single_#.sv (where # is a number beween 0 & 9) found kicking around loose in the D1 folder, pre version 1.08 the multi's were in the windows folder.
if it's only multi's, you can comfortably copy 20 onto floppy disk, I've seen single get to over 2Mb, which could be fun, without CDR, ZIP disk etc. if you've got a decent bandwidth connection, it won't be too hard to get a geocities website account, upload them there, and then get them back once the reformat is complete.
D2 nic mostly said it, but remeber that closed realm characters are stored on battle.net anyway, so there's no need to worry.
restoration:
reinstall the games, get latest patch, copy files back to the same places that they were on the old installations
NB D1 doesn't seem to be able to find Bnet to get the latest patcj with a fresh install, you need to update manually from the Battle.net website
if you have problems copying from inside windows (i.e. windows goes completely pear shaped, just say the word and I'm sure a few of us can help you do it from DOS)
-Bob