Frozen Toc On Sony Mz-b10

[keel]

Sorry if I'm in the wrong topic, I'm a noobie! Please redirect me if necessary.

I made a 90 minute or so Mono recording with my Sony MZ-B10, pushed STOP, and the "TOC Edit" light kept flashing for at least 5 minutes. Is this normal?

I had to record another talk, so I took out the batteries so I could eject the disc, and record again to another disc. This seemed to have worked ok.

Now, when I went back to the first disk, the display reads "Blank disc"

The manual does warn that if "TOC Edit" does not complete, the material recorded will not be saved to disc. However, I had no choice as I had to record the second talk.

Is there any way of getting to the material on the first recorded disc?

Thanking anyone for ideas....

[SlowMo]

hi,

i don`t know your unit, if it´s 'old school-md', there is a way to recover your recording, as far as you haven´t recorded on that disc since that happened.

-you can do a toc clone.

however this operation might require you to modify your unit.

the idea behind this is: md is made up of two parts, the toc and the audio data.

so you insert a disk into your unit with one single track, that takes the full length of it.

then you change the disk without your unit to notice it (that´s why to modify) and insert your disc with the lost recording. do some title editing or whatever, (so the toc needs to be re-written) and let the unit switch off by itself. then the damaged disc should have this one single track in its toc, and be playable.

long story short: the trick is, to change the disc, without the unit to notice it, the rest is easy..

do a forum search for your unit + toc clone, or search minidisc.org, they have a lot of info on that, i think.. but i don´t know if it can be done with your unit.

hope that helps..

[keel]

hi,

i don`t know your unit, if it´s 'old school-md', there is a way to recover your recording, as far as you haven´t recorded on that disc since that happened.

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Thanks SlowMo, will chase down the TOC clone possibility. Anyone already know if the MZ-B10 is old-school? Else I'll do my own homework....I did not record over the disc. Seems to me the audio data is already recorded to it, I don't have a 90 minute buffer! The trick is getting it out.