I had computer problems and had to reinstall Oblivion and lost my current character. Is it possible to save a character on disk in case this happens again? Also would it be possible to take a saved character to a friends or family members to play if we are all using windows 7?
Greg

Saves are stored in My Games\Oblivion\Saves. Simply copy the file to some other location/device, and you can put it back in the same spot after whatever reinstall you are doing. (if you are wiping your harddrive, back it up to CD, or USB drive, or some drive that you are NOT going to wipe....)

You can take your saves to any other machine, operating system doesn't matter. What DOES matter is, the Load list. If you use mods, then, whatever other machine you want to take your save to should have the same load list as your save, else, you will have trouble. (same goes for DLC.....)