Ok friends, when I get ready to replace my stolen consoles ( 360 & xbone ) thankfully I still have the original game disc, what can I recover? I have max credits, all the unicorns, the garage bought cars and my vast collection of one off paints and cars from this great community.
I don’t suppose you saved your data to online storage instead of the hard drive, did you? If you did, then I think you can recover your paints, at least. I’m not sure what else. I think the unicorns are gone forever, either way.
Don’t do a backup - you will lose everything; Forza only allows you to move your save between different storage and only 1 instance will be valid. If it ever detects a 2nd copy it will mark it corrupt and everything gets lost.