Hi all,

My son is crushed. The Pirates of the Caribbean game he has been working on and saving often has gone missing.
I should say the game itself doesn't show his saved game as an available option when doing a "Load".

However, on the XBOX system menu Memory | XBOX Hard Drive we can see his saved game under the "Pirates of the Caribbean" section. All 173 blocks of it.

So it appears the saved game file is on the hard disk, but the game itself doesn't recognise it.

Has anyone out there got any clues as to how to go about getting it back???

Thanks in advance!

maybe try ->
put the game DVD in but exit instead of playing it
leave DVD in drive
go to Xbox sys mem and see if there may be an option to run or load from there
you may be able to start from the saved game there?

And its not something easy like someone else signed into the xbox so its not showing his save?

It's corrupted the file is gone.

If it was Guitar Hero I'd be upset... but it's not.. start again :)

your son is crushed cos you bought him Pirates of the Caribbean instead of whatever he actually wanted

try saving it to a memory card, delete the old and copy it back. you never know.

As mentioned above, it could be that he's signed in under a different profile to the one the save is linked to. If you're not signed into the same profile, the saves wont show in the game.

Thanks all for your responses. POTC doesn't support profiles. All saved games are visible to all players.

We did see the option to copy the file to a memory unit. We also thought that it might be worth copying the file to a memory unit and then back again to the XBOX HDD. We've just returned from the local computer swap meet and I've been told that you can't get memory cards for the original XBOX anymore. So it's off to ebay we go.

thanks again!

Oh, it's on the original Xbox? I thought you were talking about the 360.

he will save all your xbox troubles from happening ever again in the world of neverland http://knittingangel.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/100_0531.jpg

Softmod your xbox, then you can just copy the savegame without a memory card.