Ok, this is verified by me now. I had a problem before where all my saved games and Skyrim install dispeared. My son played on it so not sure if he made a mistake. This time, only I played it, AND it happend in an hour time span. I started a new game. I played for a bit, got out of prison, on my what to the Jarl to tell him about the Dragons.

So I quit, and went to save my game to HDD just in case I had the same problem. Problem is, I couldn't find my saved games. I still had my Skyrim installed to HDD at least BUT no saved games or Auto Save games. So now I can say this should be a Skyrim problem. How can Skyrim be deleting games and installs? No idea. Unless I have a faulty memory stick, but had no problems with it before when using it for the PC.

Reading posts from other people and read they have lost saves as well, I can confirm that thisdoes happen to memory sticks now. Can't remember if the other people who lost saved games are from 360 HDD or PC or PS3, but I can confirm now that these people are right.

So for people running off memory stick make sure you have a back up copy of your games. In fact everyone who plays on the 360 should be having back up copies of their saved games as well. Hopefully Bethesda knows about this problem and is working on a fix as well.

I've been playing 20+ hours and saving to a USB flash drive with no issues. I did start backing them up to the HDD drive after reading a few people mentioning this issue. I'm using a 16GB Kingston drive if that matters.

Well it happened again. This time I did was said to me before, save to HDD. So my install of Skyrim to memory stick was been gone again.

It would be nice if Bethesda at leasts say they are aware of this problem. With them being quiet, it seems like they don't care when they do not acknowladge our problems.

Since i heard about this i make backup save's on a old 64mb xbox 360 Memory Unit, i should be safe.