Hdd went bad lost all progress

i have been playing solo pve and my hdd went bad! well i managed to save db files and i try to rename savegame to game.db but when it starts to load game is stuck in loading screen… i had to download game again but that should not be the issue cause in that db file there should be everything saved… Im loosing my nerve bad…

300h of work cant go bad this easy daaaaam……

i managed to recover files from old hdd and did allready what u said… i gave up started new char and now game is in ssd and i save savegamefiles everytime i log out to my pendrive :C)