Wierd savegame issue......

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Happy New Year all......

Been away from the game for a little while, but came back to it last week.....wierd thing happened yesterday.....

I'm about ten patrols in to my career game and had got about five or six saves associated with each patrol. Disk space was getting a little short so I decided to delete some of the earliest (and now redundant) saves.....deleted the very earliest save, then went back to my career and everything was gone - all of my saves.

Decided to exit the game and re-boot. Upon restarting I got some wierd Starforce issue - "Please insert the correct disk" - this happened several times....

In the end I had to use System Restore to get the game running again - but all saves were gone. This is with 1.4b btw and a legit copy of the game - never experienced any similar issue before.

Any ideas? Anyone know of a safe way of deleting redundant career saves so as to continue with your career?