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I've been using a Minidisc to record interviews. After recording I would transfer the files from the Minidisc onto my laptop, back them up on a CD, and delete them from the minidisc. My HD crashed, looks like a mechanical problem, but the computer lab formatted it to try to save it, and then when that didn't work installed a new HD in my laptop. I still have the old one. When I imported the audio files into SonicStage 3.2 from my backup CDs, on my new HD, SonicStage added them to it's library, but doesn't play them, saying there's invalid rights management information in the OpenMG content. It seems like there's no way to crack the DRM protection on the files. Does anyone know whether it would be possible to fix this somehow by restoring some files from the old HD? If so, which files would I need to restore? and what should I do then? It's a pretty expensive procedure (the HD is mechanically broken and formatted) but I would pay for it if I knew there was a chance to recover a year's worth of research. Or any other suggestions?

This doesn’t work in my case. After days of searching the web for help I have come to realize that there is no way to play my oma and omg files. The Sony techs say that if my hard drive (the source computer) is gone, the rights information is gone with it and there is no way to access or open the files, even though I created them and have backups of all of them. The problem is that they contain a year worth of very important work! Someone suggested to try to recover my old physically damaged hard drive (paying a lot of money to one of those hard drive recovery companies) and try to restore the lost security codes, or “keys” into my new hard drive, so sonic stage would recognize the rights information. Does anyone know if this might work? I’m willing to pay the high costs of hard drive recovery if there is at least some good chance that I will be able to access my data.

Hi, I don’t know if this is the right place to put this post. I’m totally new to this, but I’m desperately looking for some help. I’ve been using Hi MD to record research related interviews, downloading them to my computer and then baking them up (in omg and oma formats). My computer crashed last week and I had to replace the hard drive. I copied the backed up files to my new hard drive but now I can’t access my own recorded interviews! I’ve spent hours searching this forum and it seems that as of today no one has found a way to access files when the original source is lost, but I was wondering if anyone has any updates on this issue.