I apologize for posting in the wrong Forum, what sub-forum did you move it to? all I see is that my thread says 'moved' and still shows in the BF2 - Help!. my friend DOES have the original packaging/manual/CD's for BF2 and he's being a sloth about sending me them...but for Special Forces, he bought a KEY only from the US for a significantly lower price to save on shipping and everything. unfortunately he says he's lost/deleted the email that had that key, before he sent me the information. well, he did send it to me once, that's how I got everything working, the problem is in my lack of hindsight, I forgot to write either key down for future use. I've been wanting to format for a short while now, which is why I'm more anxious to get the keys. I've already updated with the patches, which means that the keys are now 'encrypted' and there are no patch uninstalls available to see if I can recover them before it got encrypted hence why I ask for the experts here.