STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW!!!!
what you should do now is:
reduce PC usage that affects HDD activity (reading/writing/overwriting)
stop doing more system restores, wont make any difference
do NOT defrag your HDD
do NOT partition your HDD
do the following:
1. create a "restore point" right now
2. Run any kind of 3rd-party software that specialisese in "Data recovery" like Wise Data Recovery or go here ->
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecov ... ograms.htm
*first (before doing the above)go to folder options, open a browser, Alt-> Tools -> folder options -> check the option "SHOW hidden files/folders" AND
do a windows file search (Ctrl+F) and search entire HDD for the map file using the exact name you have your file saved as....
* you could back up a few things first, although its unecessary since it wont be affected by the above procedure
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what we want at this point is for you to restore your map files...
after you try all alternatives until we figure out if you can actually recover it....i will tell you what to do to check in what state your HDD hardware is...
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doing multiple system restores is not a wise choice unless in very specific cases.....-> you might end up with broken registry files, mismatched files and shortcuts, missing data etc...
But the game install Itself Is missing ALL necessary files to even run. So I uninstalled the game. -> thats good... you can do a proper uninstall which will delete all game DATA, then shift+delete the folder "C:\Users\HP\Games\UT2004" (unless you have cfg, ini, savegame files which you want to backup) and do a fresh install of the game...
using the editor, where did you choose to place your map data files? in what folder and destination???
Windows 7 Home Premium, 8.00GB ram, 64bit Operating system, AMD Athlon(tm)II X4 620 processor 2.60GHz.
Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard.
is that a desktop or a laptop? how old is your system? how old is your HDD?
give me your HDD configuration (tree) and its make/model...is it a WD/seagate/HP and the specific model...