Track Lost While Trasferring Recorded Audio

[bitsfm]

Hi MiniDisc.org Community,

I have lost a very important recording while transferring it to the PC with Sonic Stage. I had to force quit Sonic Stage in the Middle of the Transfer because it was not responding anymore at all and afterwards the Hi-MD was (and still is) blank.

It probably would not have happened if I had activated the write-protection, but well - it was writable.

I am pretty sure, that the original data is still on the Hi-MD, and that just the TOC is corrupt which gives me a slight hope it might still be recoverable.

Facts:

Sony MZ-NH1, Standard USB connection, latest Sonic Stage 2.3, PCM Hi-MD recording

Please reply, if you have any idea if it and how it might be possible to recover the lost track. It was a very important recording for my university diploma.

Thank you very much in advance!

[dex Otaku]

Welcome to the fora! Sorry you came because of this.

1 - You can't transfer from a disc that is write-protected

2 - The only recovery method I know of at the moment would be to call up Sony and ask if they could do it for you. They'll probably say they don't know how.

3 - upgrade to SS 2.3 if you haven't.

4 - if the recording was a long single track - in the future, either insert track marks manually while recording, or use the time mark feature built into the recorder.

It's highly doubtful that it would work, but you could try simply running scandisk or diskdoctor on it.

edit:

see also:

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showforum=90

and more specifically:

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7687 [esp. as regards the one long track thing]

and

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=7436

[mrsoul]

The most important question:

Did you reattempt another upload after you had the failure?

If yes, then the data has been deleted. If not, then you should try opening SS and attempting to PLAY the tracks on the transfer side. If it plays, then you can use something like Total Recorder or your soundcard to capture that playback.

DO NOT ATTEMPT ANOTHER UPLOAD,

SS will kindly delete your data without even telling you that it did.

It's a damn shame Sony doesn't at least warn you!

Yes, you should always track the large PCM files before uploading to avoid the large data transfers that seem to bog down SS for some reason.

Hope this helps some. I lost a one of kind concert recording attempting the PCM upload and that made me angry for a few days but grad school work would be in another category of disaster. Good luck!