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    Atari you silly fools!

    Just got this email:


    Greeting TDU Beta Testers,

    This email is to inform you of a bug in the Test Drive Unlimited uninstaller from the Open Beta Test. If you plan on uninstalling Test Drive Unlimited, please be sure to back-up (or move) any "loose" personal files you may have stored in the c:\ root directory on your computer.

    There is an issue where the uninstaller may attempt to remove files in the c:\ root directory that are NOT in a folder or are NOT protected by windows.

    - Files that are in folders on c:\ are NOT affected by this bug.

    - Files that are protected by your windows operating system are also not affected.

    Please be sure to take extra special care when uninstalling TDU.

    If you have any questions at all regarding this issue, or would like more instructions on how to back-up your files, please email betatestadmin@atari.com

    This bug is of course fixed in the retail version of TDU.

    I'd also like to remind everyone that the Open Beta Test for Test Drive Unlimited will be ending tomorrow 2/4/07. Thanks again for all your help in the beta test for Test Drive Unlimited and we look forward to seeing you on the road in the future!

    Best,
    Beta Test Administrator
    Very clever..

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    Arse!

    I'm glad I didn't get around to trying this.

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    Hehehe, I got exactly the same email just litterally about 5 minutes ago, I quite liked the demo, even with the bugs

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    didn't half-life used to do the same thing? i'm sure "sierra utilities" deleted my c:\games once

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    ye i got this too, little late as i had already uninstalled it and it decided to delete boot.ini on c: which was nice of it, luckily win xp doesn't need boot.ini to boot anymore and it just said booting from c:\windows so no loss and i easily replaced it later , it really is a big mess though.

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    Yeah. I've got it installed.. its a good game so probably won't uninstall it for a while, but I do hope they make some sort of fix..

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