CP3S said:

What? Half-Life 2 is one of my all time favorite games, I couldn't stop playing it. How do you quit before the end?

Got bored and lost in the vehicle area. Got lost again later, so I quit for a bit.

Xbox version using a USB drive for a save device, I was switching back and forth between TV's a lot, so keeping them on a USB drive worked well. But then the Xbox told me the drive wasn't formatted. No problem, that happens every now and then when using a flash drive on Xbox, just got to pop it in the computer, copy the Xbox saves off, reformatted it, load them back on. But this time there was no data to be found anywhere, no recoverable data, nothing. I tried several different methods, before finally giving up.

Ah. Your first mistake was getting the Xbox version.