How do I get my computer games back on my computer after my hardrive has been changed?

Question

I bought the games from my computer(yahoo games) so I don't have a cd. How do I contact yahoo games to reinstall the games that I bought and I bought 4 games at 20.00 each

Answer 1

Being a bit of a computer expert (I am going to college for programming), you must reinstall them. Well, that is if you are running Windows. You will have to find the install files, whether you got them from cd's or the internet or whatever, then just go back through the install procedures.

You can't just copy your "Program Files" as this will not work. If you have any question as to what an install file is, you know how when you first insert a game cd, it usually says "Do you wish to install whatever on your system?". THAT is the install (or "setup") file.

I would recommend burning all the install files you get (if not already on a cd), onto cd's. That way, if you change hard drives, or if your HD crashes or whatever, you will always have copies of your installs.

(note: I don't mean like "piracy". I mean backing up your data)

Hope this helps
Jon

Answer 2

If this works like MusicNow, you should be able to access the account and find a section that shows what you have purchased. You can click on the game and re-download it, then save that to a disc, then run the install. The other option, assuming that you have the old hard drive and it still works, is to buy an external hard drive kit. You can then hook it up via usb port and play the game(s) off of that by exploring the drive and finding the game's exe. file

Answer 3

The most simple way is to furiously smash the CD into the disk tray until it loads...thats how we did things on MIR!

Answer 4

Download them from the disc you hopefully saved.

Answer 5

not possible, the data is gone in your hard drive...thats only storage in any pc