I was at Anglin Lake, Sask, this weekend and made several recordings
of the wonderful silence punctuated only by bird calls, particularly
Common Loons and Evening Grosbeaks. When I got back home this evening
I had seven folders each with several tracks. I highlighted all the
folders and told Sonicstage to transfer them all to the computer. A
few minutes later I started transferring my photos from compactflash
cards to the computer but by mistake told it to use the drive that the
MZ-NH900 was using at the time. My program said the drive wasn't
accessible and, realizing my mistake, told it to use the correct
drive. I later realized that Sonicstage had stopped transferring files
so I checked it. It had transferred part of the first folder and
stopped but had deleted *all* seven folders from the recorder. I'm
using the latest version of SS which lets you transfer Hi-MD files as
many times as you like but it has deleted them all even though it
hasn't transferred them.
I disconnected the drive and put it back in againand looked at the
drive with Windows Explorer and it does appear to have wiped
essentially everything off the disk.
Is there any way to recover deleted Hi-MD files??
I was at Anglin Lake, Sask, this weekend and made several recordings of the wonderful silence punctuated only by bird calls, particularly Common Loons and...
Hi Pete-- I'm very sorry to hear of your dilemma. I've been tempted to try this too, but perhaps asking the computer to handle two busses/uploads at once is...
... Pete- You'd be the first to follow through. Please let us know how it works out. I added a caution about your experience to the HiMD tips page I'm...
... I sent an email and received a reply saying that the problem was too complex to handle via email and they gave me the toll-free number to call. So we'll...
... I've just got off the phone. I won't bore you with the aggravating details but after three phone calls the short answer is that Sony can't recover deleted...
... Hi Pete- I'm sorry to learn Sony wasn't willing or couldn't help out. Hopefully they'll see your frustration as incentive to improve their transfer...
... Don't go ballistic over this with Sony. Disk recording has this problem - if you lose the Table of Contents on *any* disk you're FUBAR'd. My guess is that...
... Not entirely. The battery died in one of my MD recorders after about 2 hours of recording, so the TOC wasn't updated or finalized. But I was saved! There...
... Very interesting, but ... Unless one sneaked by while I wasn't looking, all disk recording formats use the available space on the disk no matter where it...
Out of curiosity, what would happen if you had the read-only tab set on that particular disc before the transfer? Should that have protected the files from...
The recorder and SonicStage software will only transfer from a HiMD disk that is write-able. This goes back to mp3/itunes/copyright protections/concerns. Sony...
... for the record, i have frequently uploaded tracks from my hi-md while simultaneously uploading photos from a digital camera via another usb port. so far so...
... when ... usb port. Me too. I usually take the recorder with me when I go out with the camera so I often have photos and recordings to transfer and do both ...
... That's useful to know Patrick. Have you been making a new, "hot," usb connection while the HiMD transfer was in progress? Were both USB;s on a hub or...
On a PC available power for USB is limited. Power use on a specific computer should be determined when talking about USB failure. Gerald White Muscatine,...
... The only difference was that I started the audio transfer first (I usually get the pics going first) and by mistake told my program to transfer the pics...
... hmm, let's see - i suspect (but don't recall precisiely) that i would have made both connections before starting either download. like pete, it is usually...
... hmm, that's interesting, yes - i've recovered many mds (normal, not hi-) whose tocs had been lost for whatever reason via my md deck and a process similar...
Previously mentioned on the list, EDL in the UK offer a MD recovery service aimed at broadcasters. http://www.esdl.co.uk/body/md_data_recovery/md_recovery.htm ...
... I do, but it's vintage '98 or so. It uses repurposed SCSI MD data drives and is definitely first generation MD only. That said, it's certainly worth ...
... I wrote to EDL for clarification, and received ... "At the present time there is no known method of recovering data created by a HiMD recorder. We operate...
Thanks Oryoki: That is not good news but valuable nonetheless. Even if the chance of corruption is small, for important recordings it might be wise to first...
I was was transfering a file over the weekend from my NH900 and had a track that refused to transfer. I repeated the proceedure and again no luck. So I played...
From: "Chuck B" braggjr02@... ... The procedure for this was given by HHb on the list, quite a while back now. So a search of messages should produce...
the short answer: for standard minidisc, there are a couple of tricks to try, and a couple of companies you can turn to for professional help. One such ...
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