It doesn't sound like he was backing it up though Bruce, it sounds like he was saving it/copying it to either a separate hard drive or a flash drive. If that's the case, there should be some USB plugs (just about the standard for attaching things like flash drives/external hard drives to your computer so that you can view what's on them) somewhere on the front panel of your computer case (where your regular hard drive is housed). Plug it in there. You'll get a message asking you what you want to do. I believe there's an option to do nothing. Click on that. Go into "My Computer". You should see the drive you just attached listed amongst the other drives (C: is the hard drive, D: and sometimes E: is the DVD-ROM drive, and the one you just plugged in should show up with the letter furthest along in the alphabet - on mine it's F:, on my old one it was E: ). Click on it. All your folders and files, including the saved game should be there. Right click on your saved game folder (whatever the name is) and a screen will pop up with various options. Left click on "Copy". Now go to your OOTP Developments folder in My Documents and get into the version that you're running (you said 6.5). Right click on the "saved_games" folder and the same options will pop up as did before. This time left click on "Paste". You might want to get up and stretch or get a beverage because, depending on how big your game folder got and on how fast your computer is, it could take a while to copy it over there. Once it's done, you should see it in the saved_games folder. When you go to startup the game, click on the "Load Saved Game" button and you should see it there. Crossing my fingers for you. Hope it works.
If you did back up the game, which as Bruce noted wasn't available until OOTP11, then disregard these instructions. Hrrm...While I've been putting this together and off eating, conception has put together instructions of much greater brevity. Ah well, what can you do?
