Cohupdater.exe will not find existing install

Hello all, hopefully someone has run into this before.

I've installed a new copy of Windows on my PC, resulting in all my settings being wiped.

So, as usual, I started the cohupdater.exe file as if I was reinstalling, pointed it to a just-created folder (in this case, C:\Games\City of Heroes) and then closed the program (as normal).

I then copied the entire game to this folder, and restarted Cohupdater.exe

Ordinarily, it would hiccup and then find that all the game files were in their proper places and patch as normal.

Today, it simply keeps loading the game, all 3GB of it, completely ignoring that the folder is already populated.

Why did this change, and how do I fix it? I'd really prefer to not spend the next 12 hours re-downloading the Piggs I already have...

Thanks!

EDIT: I've checked for the old "folder rename" error in the user registry, and it's properly pointed at C:\Games\City of Heroes. I thought that possibly it wasn't finding the files because it was looking in the wrong place - no such luck.

Copying the CoH install to where I want it, then copying cohupdater.exe to the desktop (not a shortcut!) and running that copy and specifying, when it asks, the directory the files are in has worked for me several times (including a few weeks back when I did a clean install of WinXP). Not that knowing this is helpful in any way, of course. :P

Long shot here... but I had the same problem.

Do you have multiple hard drives in your rig, brought from older computers which may have had Windows installed on them previously? I did.

I had this:

C:\ (Current OS intalled)
D:\ (Previous OS was installed here)
E:\ (Other)

Unless the partition on drive D was completely deleted and made anew, it would still be labeled as "System, Active" as a partition. Oh what chaos that caused. I would try to install something to D:\, and it would make directories on C:\ anyway, because both drives were marked as "System" partitions, and C:\ was the big dog. Even though I was installing on D:\, it was making a C:\Program Files\City of Heroes directory and installing things there. Also, the vidiotmaps map pack would install there too.

Just my .02, if you want to explore a different angle.

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Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus This entire post should receive some kind of award for being both hysterical and fantastic. Well done.

Thanks for the help! That multiple drive thing was the problem - Windows 7 installed itself to completely the wrong drive (D: in this case).

Redswitchblade, that was the issue, and explains a lot of other strange things I was running into.

I'm going to re-install Windows now (disconnecting the non-system drives this time). Now that I know what to look for I shouldn't be getting that problem again.