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Saved data corrupted?

  • 25-06-2009 8:17pm
    #1
    James Howlett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭


    I connected to xbox live earlier and went to play street fighter 4.
    When I loaded up the game I was presented with a text box saying that my save data file was corrupted and could not be loaded. However I went into system settings/ memory/ games and sure enough the data file is there, 17mb in size I think.
    I still have all of my achievements for the game but when I play it my player record is gone and I am back to 0 characters unlocked...
    Anybody got any idea wtf just happened?

    Worst case scenario al of my sf4 data is gone, I can live with that, my main question though is:
    Is this a precursor to rrod?


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  • #2
    Axwell
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭Axwell


    No its a possible precursor to a corrupt hard drive, the hard drive has nothing to do with RROD. THis is caused by overheating on the motherboard which melts solder joints which have to be resoldered using a diff method when they take it back for repair.


    I had problems with my hard drive recently, in the middle of playing fifa it would say disk unreadable take it out clean it etc but i was playing off the hard drive, then after more time the games would freeze up out of the blue and I would sign in to be told no profile existed. I rang them and the xbox was still in warranty so they got me to send it off and I am waiting on a replacement at the minute.

    You can get a lead and software which allows you to connect your hard drive to a pc and use the software to copy your files to your pc and then format the drive and fix the corrupt area before copying your files back over. Possible option for you if the hard drive turns out to be corrupt and is out of warranty.


  • #3
    James Howlett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭James Howlett


    Thanks for the reply.

    Its well within warranty, only got it at christmas.
    I'll try and copy my saved data to usb memory stick in case it happens again.
    If I did format the hard-drive do you know if I would be able to recover my live arcade games from xbox live?


  • #4
    Axwell
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭Axwell


    Ya those can be downloaded again they are attached to your profile


  • #5
    rizzla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,945 ✭✭✭rizzla


    James Howlett wrote: »
    I'll try and copy my saved data to usb memory stick in case it happens again.

    You can't do that unfortunately. You'll need an offical MS memory card.


  • #6
    James Howlett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭James Howlett


    Ballox, microsoft don't like making things easy...


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