tartan Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Today, my '700 cheweed a disc, can anyone explain this ??? Starting with a blank disc, 2 recordings were made, when the player was connected to the computer, Sonicstage wouldn't see any tracks on the disc, even though two recordings were made earlier, the display on the player said "cannot read or record disc" When viewing the contents of the disc in file storage mode, there were a whole pile of folders and files with strange characters with extensions such as .uav, .uqv, .usv, .Ñaª , .àRå etc instead of the usual HMA folder and file. Not happy about this because these recordings are not repeatable. What happened here ??? and is there some way to recover the lost tracks ??? Is there some way to not let this happen again ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 sounds like the file table got scrambled. if it was a hd i would suggest a attack by scandisk or similar but with a minidisc i think its junk. all you can do is reformat in my view... but maybe someone have a interesting solution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 Nope. No solution. Unusual, it is... Since this is the first time, I heard about that, I can only guess for the reason. However, it is known, that certain virii and worms trash disks of any kind like this. Remember, Hi-MD is a USB-datadrive as well. I would suggest to do a virus scan and in addition to plug in the recorder AFTER SonicStage has been fully loaded AND to eject the disc before the recorder is unplugged or SonicStage is exited. SonicStage blocks any file system access to the recorder while it is running. Recovering the contents? Highly unlikely, I say with the current knowledge, impossible. Might change in the future, when more is known about the internals of the recorders and .hma formats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 What needs to happen is for Sony to make a recovery util for the audio "virtual partition" used by HiMDs. It wouldn't actually be that different from diskdoctor, it would just have to be custom-built for the filesys they use on top of FAT for audio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tartan Posted October 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 It looks like something kept the player from finishing its write and "tidying up" the disc for next time it is used as storage media and all those weird file and folders created only when the disc is inside the player, meaning all the tracks are there, only scattered everywhere. Meanwhile, the disc has been put aside, never to be used until a way has been found to get those tracks back or if there is definitely no way of getting it back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From now on, all recording will be done on the old sized discs unless the old discs are not long enough so if a disc breaks, less sound will be lost. New ways to record had been made up when a recording is so important it cannot be repeated or if the minidisc chews more discs. A tape recording Walkman will be kept in a dedicated pocket of the bag, ready to be hitched up to a mic in a pocket kept at the other side of the bag, when recording is to be done, both the minidisc and tape will go and stopped at the same time, so if the minidisc screws up, the tape will always be there as backup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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