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[Smack332]

Since this thread is quite old, this answer may have been provided by others on the forum, but I thought I'd let you know there is a way to take a backup of the ME2 save game. Here's how:



1. Move your ME2 save game to a USB stick

2. Insert the USB stick in your computer and copy the Xbox360 folder from the stick to your HD (The folder is hidden, so make sure the computer is set to read hidden files)

3. Insert USB stick in your Xbox and move the save game back to Xbox HD

4. When you need your save game backup, copy the entire Xbox360 folder from the PC to a USB stick (that's been formatted in your Xbox) and insert it in the Xbox.



Slightly cumbersome, but it works.

[Rotlex]

Old thread I know, but I just came across it. My HDD died in my new slim last week. I had maybe 20 hours into ME2. Came here looking for a way to backup my save file, and only found the move it to a comp, then back again method. Are there any updates on this? I find it ludicrous to not be able to backup a save game. Especially in an RPG, that you may wind up putting dozens of hours into.



My experience with the failed HDD in a few week old system has made me even more nervous that before!

[Arkham258]

Old thread, but I just got around to playing this awesome game and encountered this problem myself. I believe I have a solution though. Something I've found that seems to work well, at least on the Xbox 360 version. Make another profile on your memory card. Make it just like the profile you have on your hard drive. Start playing and make a save file or two on your memory card for that profile. Now load up a save from your hard drive for the other profile that you have on the hard drive. After it loads up, save your game to the hard drive like you normally would. Now go to the load screen, switch to the profile you have on your memory card. It will pull up the saves for your second profile on your memory card. Now exit out and go to the save option. It will once again pull up the save files on your memory card! Now go ahead and save on your memory card and you've effectively backed up your data. Everytime you go to the load screen and switch profiles, it allows to access those files under the save option so you can go back and forth from saving on your hard drive and on your memory card. Hopefully this helps some people and I've have to say, with all due respect to Bioware and their wonderful contributions to the gaming industry, making it this complicated to copy saves is quite honestly one of the dumbest things I've seen in quite some time. The only other company I've known who places a similar restriction on copying saves is Rare with their Viva Pinata series. It makes no sense. Aside from these two companies, EVERYONE lets you copy save data. Oh well, I still love Bioware. They make some of the best games on the market today.

[ratcatfish]

balls. thanks for all the suggestions guys. i just wish they would make it so that you didn't have to do all this janky stuff to do something as basic as backing up your save games. Definitely don't trust my hdd after having it for 4 years and really don't want to loose dozens of hours of playtime. The method involving making a duplicate coppy of your profile seems kinda crazy what is the benefit of doing that over the move to a usb copy to computer and move back method? also if you save on to another profile will you then be able to use the saves later with your normal profile?

[TraumaticHug]

After spending 2 hours on this, I finally figured out that you can Move/Transfer your Xbox 360's Mass Effect 2 saved game to a USB stick, but not copy.



Forget about going the usual route of going into the saved game file itself to copy it.

Instead go into System > Memory and press Y (as appears at the bottom of your screen/dashboard), then either untick everything you don't want transferred, leaving just your Mass Effect 2 save ticked, or just copy everything (if your USB is large enough).



(Note: You may have to either select the hard disc or go into it first before the Y (transfer) option is enabled at the bottom of the screen/dashboard. I just packed up my 360 for trading in to upgrade to the 250GB model before my one putters out, so I can't check for specifics)

[Crimmsonwind]

It took you two hours to figure that out? O_o



I don't understand the issue, here... I live in two different houses and am constantly switching between two 360s, and I figured out right away after it said "unable to copy" that I had to just move it instead, and I've never had any issues. Is there some kind of crazy bug a few of you were running into? Granted this thread is insanely old now, by internet standards, but I just don't see the problem.

[marukodesu]

Smack332 wrote...

Since this thread is quite old, this answer may have been provided by others on the forum, but I thought I'd let you know there is a way to take a backup of the ME2 save game. Here's how:<br />
<br />
1. Move your ME2 save game to a USB stick<br />
2. Insert the USB stick in your computer and copy the Xbox360 folder from the stick to your HD (The folder is hidden, so make sure the computer is set to read hidden files)<br />
3. Insert USB stick in your Xbox and move the save game back to Xbox HD<br />
4. When you need your save game backup, copy the entire Xbox360 folder from the PC to a USB stick (that's been formatted in your Xbox) and insert it in the Xbox. <br />
<br />
Slightly cumbersome, but it works.

Has anyone tried this? You sure that it works?
Doesn't it result in a corrupted savegame if you ever want to bring back the backup on the xbox hdd?
If it's true that the file is copy-protected because it's copyrighted, looks odd to me that a simple copy/paste through a PC would make a copy work that way.
According to what I'm reading here and there, this whole process could even corrupt the original savegame (yeah the one on the USB stick).

I do apologize for bringing up this topic. I'm a new player to the Mass Effect saga, and yesterday I happened to get a rrod from my xbox. Fortunately the console kept working following a simple reboot, but I'm worried that it may fail again - and for good. I attempted to copy the savegame in order to ease my concern and... you know why I'm here.
I can't believe that a single story that spans through 3 games isn't allowing me to backup my data.

[marukodesu]

Ok, I got "news" (ie, something you should know if you don't).

I tried to do as explained above, I moved my ME2 save to an USB stick then copied it on my PC and then moved it back to the xbox hdd. The original savegame still works, it didn't get corrupted during the process.
What you should pay attention to is how to restore the savegame if you lose the original one and you want to use the backup. Backing up an xbox-formatted USB stick basically means to copy the "Xbox360" invisible folder that contains several "Data000x" files (in which "x" is a progressive number starting from 0). If you format your stick to manually restore your previously saved backup YOU MUST NOT REPLACE THE WHOLE XBOX360 FOLDER because YOU MUST NOT REPLACE THE DATA0000 FILE with the one inside your backup folder. Just keep the new Data0000 and replace the files starting from 0001. Otherwise, you won't be able to restore your savegame.
This way you'll be able to successfully backup and restore your ME2 savegame.

More info here: 
http://www.xbox360ac...t=294557&page=2