Lost Songs during SS Transfer from NH-900 unit. Any Ideas?

[JettyCatArmy]

Hi everyone.

I'm new to the board. Just got back into MD when the HI-MD came out a couple months ago.

I've recently been recording concerts that I perform the soundboard mixing for. I have/had the only recording of a concert and was using SS 2.2 to transfer the tracks to the computer and it said "an internal error occured" on all but the first song, which transferred fine.

All 26 other tracks seem to have disappeared, sort of. The MD says "Cannot Play Or Record" when that disc is inserted.

Looking in Windows XP at the disc as a removable drive it still has all the files on it, I think.

I've read that TOC cloning may work, but I can't find anything about TOC cloning on a NH-900 or other HI-MD unit.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or, if someone wanted to do this for me (I mail them the good and bad discs) I would be happy to pay a reasonable fee.

In the future, I will be making Audio Out recordings before I try transferring files just to be safe.

Oh, more info, the LIST file on the disk references TRKID04, TRKID05 but the disc has files named TRKID05, TRKID06 on it. Do I just need to change some file names or swap fresh TOC files from a blank or 1-track blank disc?

Thanks for all the help,

Jettycatarmy

[dex Otaku]

There is no equivalent to TOC cloning with HiMD since it does not use the same disc format.

The only advice I can give is to back up your recordings using the realtime transfer method described here before uploading them with SonicStage.

You can make analogue backups if you prefer, but Total Recorder is only $11.95USD and is worth paying for.

C'est dommage that you lost so many tracks. I haven't had this happen [yet] myself, and I haven't heard of it happening to anyone else. Jadeclaw had some advice a while back about keeping cabling clear and making sure that the ferrite chokes were securely in place, especially on the USB cable.

To my knowledge there is currently no known method of recovering these tracks. Perhaps if you called Sony and persistently complained, they might be able to point you in the right direction - chances are you'd end up sending your disc to the one person at Sony in Japan who knows enough to get the data off, though.