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If you’ve encountered the Gears of War bug, which deletes all savegames, this is a workaround, so you don’t have to replay the whole game from the beginning:
Go to folder \Gears of War\WarGame\Checkpoints\
Rename the checkpoint-file of the last played chapter (e.g. chapter21.sav) to chapter0.sav (don’t forget to backup). Use list below as a guide line for the numbers of the chapters. Within the game start a new campaign and it will start with the choosen chapter. Of course all cog tags are lost and weapons are reset to level defaults.

For future safety make a backup of the savegame-folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows Account> \Local Settings \Application Data \Microsoft \XLive \Content \Exxxxxxx \FFFE07D1 \00010000 \Exxxxxxxxxx_MountPt\
It’s only visible, if “show hidden files and folders” is activated.

numerical Gears of War chapter list

Act 1: ASHES
0 - Chapter 1: 14 Years After E-Day
1 - Chapter 2: Trial By Fire
2 - Chapter 3: Fish in a Barrel
3 - Chapter 4: Fork in the Road
4 - Chapter 5: Knock Knock
5 - Chapter 6: Hammer
6 - Chapter 7: Wrath
7 - Chapter 8: China Shop
Act 2: NIGHTFALL
8 - Chapter 1: Tick Tick Boom
9 - Chapter 2: Grist
10 - Chapter 3: Outpost
11 - Chapter 4: Lethal Dusk
12 - Chapter 5: Dark Labyrinth
13 - Chapter 6: Powder Keg
14 - Chapter 7: Burnt Rubber
15 - Chapter 8: Last Stand

Act 3: BELLY OF THE BEAST
16 - Chapter 1: Downpour
17 - Chapter 2: Evolution
18 - Chapter 3: Coalition Cargo
19 - Chapter 4: Darkest Before Dawn
20 - Chapter 5: Angry Titan
21 - Chapter 6: Tip of the Iceberg
Act 4: THE LONG ROAD HOME
22 - Chapter 1: Campus Grinder
23 - Chapter 2: Bad to Worse
24 - Chapter 3: Hazing
25 - Chapter 4: Close to Home
26 - Chapter 5: Imaginary Place
27 - Chapter 6: Entrenched
Act 5: DESPERATION
28 - Chapter 1: Impasse
29 - Chapter 2: Comedy of Errors
30 - Chapter 3: Window Shopping
31 - Chapter 4: Powers That Be
32 - Chapter 5: Jurassic Proportions
33 - Chapter 6: Special Delivery
34 - Chapter 7: Train Wreck
35 - Chapter 8: Pale Horse

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