Reinstalling

I'm planning on updating to windows 7 today, and that means reinstalling WoW.

What's the best way to do this so that it doesn't take 3 days to get it all patched up?

I'll save all the ____downloader.exe and ____patch.exe files from the root dir, as well as the stuff in the Patches and Updates folders. Should I back up and restore the whole Data folder too, or will that get things out of sync?

I just save my entire wow folder in a removable harddrives when I reformat and just copy it back over.

yah, they don't need some dlls or so, just save them, my wow folder has gone big over the time...

my wow folder is like 27 gigs

ive got mods in folders that are from like version 1.whatever

i really should clean that shit out i could prolly free up a few gigs

Just save your interface directory and download the full game off their site while you sleep.

You dont need to install any updates in between the CD copies of the game. Just install vanilla - TBC - Wotlk then download the full 3.2.0 patch from any bitorrent of filehost you like (it's 1.2gigs) and then its another 40mb patch to update it to 3.2.2 or whatever we're on.

Patch mirrors - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft (http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_mirrors)