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I’m in the process of migrating a failed vmware ESXI experiment over to Microsoft’s Hyper-V, something that is a topic for another post. However in this process I had to log back into my ESXI box in order to recover some of the settings before placing the Hyper-V server into production.

I had reloaded my main workstation since I last touched the ESXI control panel, which I suppose is a testament to its stability (it has been in production for roughly 6 months now). I went to reinstall the vSphere managment client and was greeted with this:

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This is a bit long-winded, scroll down for the answer if you’re impatient.

With Mass Effect 2 coming out shortly I decided it was high time to go find my save games from the original, as it has been made clear that your actions in the first game will affect the characters and play of the 2nd game.

I found my save games from an old backup (apparently Bioware likes to stick savegames in Users\<Profile_Name>\Documents\Bioware) and copied them over to my desktop machine. On a whim I launched Mass Effect from Steam to see if my savegames were still intact. My first playthrough save (bare-bones, no sidequests, etc.) worked great but my second playthrough (complete, all sidequests) required that I install the “Bring Down the Sky” DLC as I had installed and played it with that profile. After finding the installer and executing it, I was asked for a key. To make a long story short I ended up logging back into my Bioware account to recover my BDtS key (all the while muttering about how stupid this entire process was for a free DLC). Surely I was in the home stretch now…

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