Don't know if anyone still uses this forum, but thought I'd give it a shot.
I deleted Diablo and just manually recovered the .drv files(older character files, I'm actually wondering if I have the right ones considering 1.09 had the .sv extension for character files). I now am on a different computer without the original registry entries for Diablo, and I would like to restore these files, in hope that my lvl47 mage is somewhere there. I've tried renaming, restoring with Kevin's Diablo Backup(not working), using different patches... The character files have the exact same size(both the .sv and the .drv).