Xbox 360 Biggest screw up

[JClarke1953]

Okay, I began a new game, new char and headed different than my first one. But, when I looked for my "old" char, I couldn't find the "load" for it. Did I inadvertently eliminate my previous char somehow?

When I began a new game, I started from there, but now cannot seem to locate my old game. Hope I didn't use up all those hour's and stuff just to lose it so quickly.

AHHHH! I did lose it! I looked in the setting's and storage, then at the Skyrim icon, and everything I had is gone! Sure messed that up somehow, and I had thought beginning a new game would just put what I had separate. Guess not! All my $$$, my home's, my children! Gone!

 

[jRi0T68]

Console or pc? Either way, always back up your save files.

 

[JClarke1953]

360. I more ore less figured it would do like my desktop when I played game's on it. It would keep the "old"game and start the new one on another file or something. I forgot, and had no idea that I would need a plug-in of some kind to store the old game.

On the bright side though, all I was doing was grinding for gold, getting fed up with how Bethesda set up the job's from the Dark Brotherhood, Thieves Guild and the Castle as a Vampire Lord. Everything was the same thing over and over and over ad nauseum. And I had my char pretty much on the "dark side" I think anyway. I had thought something different or whatever would happen as a Vamp Lord, killer of Alduin, Guild Master, Arch-Mage and well know in most of the provinces.

So, I look at this as an opportunity to work my char in another direction, and see how thing's go. Perhaps I won't run into the many glitches I did and the quest's that "broke" or got stuck.

 

[Junkie]

How many saves do you have ? I keep 1 save per character on the Xbox, plus the 3 autosaves it keeps as you go in & out of places. If you have a lot of saves its possible it just lost in the mix. I saved over a character with another before, it got me so mad I didn't play for almost a week. That's when I started doing just 1 save per character, made it easier to keep track of.

 

[jRi0T68]

I backup my save from every day into the internal memory card, while the main drive is the HD. It prevents me from saving over files accidentally, and I have 3 or 4 files saved from different points in the game in case one becomes corrupt.

 

[JClarke1953]

Hmmm? Internal memory? I'll have to look and see, as I've never really gotten too far into the system. All I know is when I go into the drive like I would to dump the cache, I hit A on Skyrin, and all I see is what I've done with the new game.

I HAD hundred's of save's, but would dump them before quitting for the day. I STILL need to remember to save after a fast travel and before and after a fight. When I don't I get my butt handed to me, and I end having to redo a boatload of stuff I'd already done.

I should mention this was my son's 360, but when he went to Okinawa for 2-year's for the USMC, I took it over rather than let it sit. It's about 2-year's old, been on its side from the start, and kept pretty clean.

 

[jRi0T68]

I bought my xbox in 2007, I think. It came with a tiny amount of storage labeled "memory"in the system, then I bought a 60 gb hard drive that attaches to the left side once you remove the gray plastic grate.

Alternatively, you can format a usb drive to be compatible and store backup files there.

 

[JClarke1953]

Much thanks, I'll check into that. I do have a 90 gig. USB external hard drive. I have our iTunes and stuff on it, and still a boatload of room. I'll try plugging it in and see how it works. I've been more of a desktop guy, buy the part's, build it, do what over-clocking I can get away with and watch it fly. But it's been sitting doing nothing since I bought a laptop and iPad.

And I'm enjoying the heck outa my sons 360 while he's gone.