I recently restored my HDD from a back up, now Steam doesn't see my saves. I know where they are, but how do I get Steam to recognize them? (39 hours into Skyrim, 49 into The Witcher 2 it would suck to start over)
Did you try moving the saves out of the folder and then saving once and dropping the old saves back in? Maybe the game has to associate the folder with the game before it will recognize it. I would just make sure to move them first so that the game doesn't accidentally overwrite them.