BruceC

I apologize for letting my annoyance show. I know it is not helpful. When I put my disk into the RH910, a message appears saying something like "no music or data on disk". The one other disk I have still works correctly in my RH910 so the unit seems ok. If I try to play the corrupted disk directly on the RH910, or view its contents, nothing happens. Similarly, if I attach the RH910 to my computer, via USB, and start Sonic Stage, I get a message saying the disk's format is unrecognizable. The disk contents do not appear, I cannot play the disk, I cannot transfer tracks, or anything else. By the way, I am using Sonic Stage 3.0. As far as I can tell, the five hours of music on my disk are completely lost, unless someone has figured out how to hack these disks. When a track is transfered to the computer, Sony writes a bit on the disk telling it not to transfer the track again. Presumably, one of these writes failed -- perhaps because the battery was not completely charged? -- and the bit was on a critical sector of the disk. I am sure that 99.99% of the disk is still fine. Since it was the first time I used the disk, and since I never erased anything, the tracks presumably are placed on consecutive sectors of the disk. So, you'd think it would be pretty easy to recover the disk if someone has a way to do a "raw" read. I asked Sony for help but they just referred me to a company that recovers hard disks. If anyone can help, I'd sure appreciate it.

My MZ-RH910 did the worst possible thing -- it corrupted the disk during upload. Anyone figured out a way to recover a disk? This is the first disk I've made and, if I can't fix the disk, I'll never use the rh910 again. I don't think this is my fault. I had about 5 hours of live music recording on the disk from a one week music workshop I attended -- this disk is important to me. I had listened to the entire disk so I know the music was there. I had already uploaded about 20 tracks (of about 150 total) so I think I knew how to use Sonic Stage. I haven't checked the Sonic Stage version but I bought the rh910 just a month ago from Amazon, so I would assume it is fairly up-to-date. The rh910 was plugged directly into my computer's USB port, not through a USB hub. The rh910 was NOT plugged into the power (besides the USB) because, to plug in the USB, you have to close a little door that prevents you from plugging in the power supply. The USB is supposed to supply the power. The rh910 battery indicator said the battery was fully charged. I started a multi-track upload. The first track uploaded successfully but then the transfer stopped and an error message appeared saying the disk did not have a recognizable format! Now, I cannot even play the disk. At the moment, I am very disgusted with Sony and the rh910, and I would not recommend buying one.