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Does one try putting the headphone jack of the radio to line in? I still have no idea whether he wants to move music TO or FROM the minidisc.

"Download" meaning PC to NHF800?

Sure. But I was referring to "that which Roger stuck paper on to". Not the case for the case.....

I love the appearance. But I feel obligated to throw up a flag here. If the (sticky) paper ever got stuck in the very delicate shutter mechanism, it seems to me that one such disk would have the capacity to wreck multiple MD recorders. I've had some problems over the years with sticky labels. This "full paper jacket" approach seems to my (perhaps too fussy) eye to have the possibility of breaking the spring at the very least. Or worse, to jam the disk in the mechanism which is delicate at the best of times. I well recall a unit that had been ruined by someone, probably in a classroom, forcing an MD in the wrong orientation (there are 7 wrong ones and only one right!) and busting the OW head and more. Now if one could 3D-print an entire new MD case that would be another matter :) But perhaps I have misunderstood the nature of the modifications....... Kind regards

You have to get rid of all oem<nn>.inf files that contain the string "Sony Net MD" from the directory C:\Windows\inf This is all the standard drivers which will NOT work with 64-bit Windows (if you had 32-bit windows you would never have seen the problem).

Hey Philippe, M-Crew was originally designed for Windows 98. Not many Apple products with that sort of longevity.

It (the MDS-JE770)'s one of the only decks that supports M-Crew (given a suitable PC with a CDROM). You must have a real copy of XP, though, as Virtual XP will never work for the digital extraction from CD. Earlier ones didn't have it except in Japan, later ones either had keyboard but no USB, or USB built in which is also a pain. Until and unless we get the gracenote fiasco sorted, none of these will find song titles unless they're already on the CD.

IIRC, the clue to function is this: with LP2 (not on the D3, granted) you can only copy X2 and LP4 you can only copy X1 (ie X4 for LP4). However I think the D400 is actually different (looked at circuit a while back and I *think* I saw the double data rate provisioning). The only one that *really* does a native ATRAC copy ie compressed to compressed is the MDS-W1.

Sadly, it's overwhelmingly likely there is a one-bit error which would be enough to invalidate the entire disk. If I'm right it would make sense to hook the disk up as a mass storage device with standard drivers and take a record of anything that's there. However you must write protect the disk, which absolutely guarantees that it will not be READable by any Sony HiMD device :) You have two options (if Philippe's suggestion of another unit isn't correct): 1. Study the code in the QHiMDtransfer project and try to make it somehow ignore all errors. 2. Contact Sony who (at least historically) have offered the service of disk recovery for a mere $50 It seems likely that they may have ceased doing so, however if the recording is very valuable it's certainly worth a try.

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You have to register for the Buyee site. You will have no problem bidding on the PCLK that's there right now. If you can't make Buyee work, there is also FromJapan which does the same service.

Your MXD-D40 will not transfer to the PC, except at playback speed and using a special modification to give an optical out jack which I worked out (pretty simple actually). Try here if you want a PCLK: https://buyee.jp/item/search/query/pclk-MN20?translationType=1

Absolutely correct. The 520 is of different design/construction, that they used from then onwards.

Depends if you did it by conversion of a higher bit rate. But for recording directly through optical, it works pretty good.

Of all the units NOT to repair, the JE510 (and 310) are at the top of my shopping list. Cannibalise it for parts, yes. Fix it, no way.

74 minutes, not 74 years old!!! They hadn't invented tape in 1943, I think. These are the classic symptoms of a busted overwrite head circuit. Any disk you try to record on ends up blank. Do NOT put anything you treasure into this machine until it's fixed.

LP2 and LP 4 work brilliantly, here. They are actually better CODECs than the SP. Experiments have a tendency to backfire. The whole reason that MP3 won the day in 199x, when it should have been ATRAC. If you don't do it right, yes, LP4 can sound awful. But I have a couple of thousand hours of classical music of all shapes and sizes that sounds great.

There are lots of decks with optical out, just make sure you get one with MDLP. anything starting with 4 or 7, some with 6 or 9. Check back with us, or at http://minidisc.org/equipment_browser.html Alternatively you can buy, rent or borrow an MZ-RH1. If there's only a few MDs, some kind soul might even offer to transcribe (upload) them for you. You cannot improve on that, as LP is uploaded bit-for-bit to a computer.

Yeah that's a dirty trick they pulled. This looks better: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Slim-External-USB-2-0-DVD-RW-CD-Writer-Drive-Burner-Reader-Player-For-Laptop-New/323367858969

not AFAIK

I suppose you're running as administrator? Assuming so, I'd be inclined to get rid of all the NetMD drivers (assuming you have 64-bit Windoze). Then install the one and only one that you need, NETMD760. You will have to go through and get rid of all the C:\windows\inf\oem*.inf files manually (\inf is a hidden directory, as I'm sure you know). Might be an idea to hook a real MD up so you know you've got the driver installed. And make sure you have uninstalled all the "ghost" NetMD drivers (which necessitates turning on viewing of hidden drivers via the system environment variables - all documented on here many times). Also in Windows 10 there are some options about data execution prevention. I recall there are some portions of the software in self-modifying code. So at the very least set the execution to XP-compatible.

I don't know if it will let you install over USB. I don't think so unless you have a USB-CD. The ISO will do you no good at all unless the ROM BIOS can read that HDD. Most unlikely for that generation of machine. What you might do is to take the disk out of the Sony, and create a boot partition on it with the ISO. Then install the OS to a fresh partition after forcing the ROM BIOS to boot the partition you just made. You can always delete and/or merge the extra partition after the fact. The key step is to connect that hard disk to some other PC. Or you can spend $15 on a 1GB memory stick. Whether XP SP3 will boot from a USB stick is rather dubious. I'm sorry we're not really here as a PC support forum. Our Sony knowledge has more to do with Sony specialities like Audio/Walkmen/minidisc. Hmmm USB CD's are rather cheap now: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Slim-External-USB-3-0-DVD-RW-CD-Writer-Drive-Burner-Reader-Player-For-Laptop-PC/183357085315

Sony has a "pro duo" memory stick which they "pro"moted as competition for SD (can't be right, it isn't proprietary and WE didn't invent it). There was a micro version even, and they ended up making sockets for that which were two-way: put in a microsd card one way, and micro pro duo the other way up. I still don't grasp what disk you are talking about. Was this a machine whose only accessible peripheral was an SD card? What about USB? I guess even XP doesn't fit onto a 64MB memory stick, you need a CD.....

OK please post the model number and/or a link to the manual. I don't get any hits when I try to find the model number given in your post. I don't really understand what you're saying about the items pictured. Are you saying this was Sony's precursor to SD? I think they called it something different as one or two devices I own take both kinds of stick.