Deleting games off HDD...lost data.

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#1 BradHummr
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I installed GTAIV to my hard drive okay? I played it quite a bit and had seven hours on the game and over 800 civilians killed. I deleted it off my hard drive for storage purposes, reinstalled it and I'm down to only 2 hours of game time and around 200 civilians killed.

This really surprised me. I haven't deleted and game data, just the game itself. And now I've lost 5 hours of playing time. I still had the same amount of missions completed, but my game time and stats were very low and I had no weapons.

Has anyone else experienced this? I personally enjoy watching my stats grow and I slightly disappointed when they dropped so much without warning.

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#2 Toriko42
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It's most likely save file corruption which may or may not be related to you deleting the game of your HDD
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#3 vidic123
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are you sure you saved the game beacause that has never happend to me and if you did save it then it is probally file corruption or something

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#4 BradHummr
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I am 100% sure I saved my data. Several times. I frequently went on crime sprees and made it back to my house and saved while there were cops in the room or come civilian who was angry. Now I'm afraid to delete any other games from my HDD! :P
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#5 iam2green
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sounds like u deleted something from ur save.
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#6 vidic123
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the only way that the data cannot be there is if u have deleted some data. The only other thing to really say to sovle this problem is to go kick some more a**