BruceC Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 My MZ-RH910 did the worst possible thing -- it corrupted the disk during upload. Anyone figured out a way to recover a disk? This is the first disk I've made and, if I can't fix the disk, I'll never use the rh910 again.I don't think this is my fault. I had about 5 hours of live music recording on the disk from a one week music workshop I attended -- this disk is important to me. I had listened to the entire disk so I know the music was there. I had already uploaded about 20 tracks (of about 150 total) so I think I knew how to use Sonic Stage. I haven't checked the Sonic Stage version but I bought the rh910 just a month ago from Amazon, so I would assume it is fairly up-to-date. The rh910 was plugged directly into my computer's USB port, not through a USB hub. The rh910 was NOT plugged into the power (besides the USB) because, to plug in the USB, you have to close a little door that prevents you from plugging in the power supply. The USB is supposed to supply the power. The rh910 battery indicator said the battery was fully charged. I started a multi-track upload. The first track uploaded successfully but then the transfer stopped and an error message appeared saying the disk did not have a recognizable format! Now, I cannot even play the disk. At the moment, I am very disgusted with Sony and the rh910, and I would not recommend buying one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 Welcome to the forums. Take a deep breath, calm down a lil'. When you hook up the unit to your computer, and load Sonicstage, is it able to read the disc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceC Posted August 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 (edited) I apologize for letting my annoyance show. I know it is not helpful.When I put my disk into the RH910, a message appears saying something like "no music or data on disk". The one other disk I have still works correctly in my RH910 so the unit seems ok. If I try to play the corrupted disk directly on the RH910, or view its contents, nothing happens. Similarly, if I attach the RH910 to my computer, via USB, and start Sonic Stage, I get a message saying the disk's format is unrecognizable. The disk contents do not appear, I cannot play the disk, I cannot transfer tracks, or anything else. By the way, I am using Sonic Stage 3.0.As far as I can tell, the five hours of music on my disk are completely lost, unless someone has figured out how to hack these disks. When a track is transfered to the computer, Sony writes a bit on the disk telling it not to transfer the track again. Presumably, one of these writes failed -- perhaps because the battery was not completely charged? -- and the bit was on a critical sector of the disk. I am sure that 99.99% of the disk is still fine. Since it was the first time I used the disk, and since I never erased anything, the tracks presumably are placed on consecutive sectors of the disk. So, you'd think it would be pretty easy to recover the disk if someone has a way to do a "raw" read. I asked Sony for help but they just referred me to a company that recovers hard disks.If anyone can help, I'd sure appreciate it. Edited August 2, 2005 by BruceC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skradgee Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Hi BruceC. Sorry to hear about your troubles. I have also lost some important recordings with my Hi-MD recorder. Too bad Hi-MD is at least a little bit unreliable. :-( Try updating to SonicStage 3.2 and maybe you'll be able to play back the tracks in the software and manually record them onto PC if you can get the disc to be recognized again. There are no recovery tools available (that we know of, yet) for Hi-MD. You also may want to try contacting Sony support again. They very well may have some recovery tools available to them, that they need to make available to us! If you hang on to the disc, and don't make any more recordings on it, wait things out and maybe over the next year or two, we'll get a way to recover Hi-MD audio. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aashish Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I also lost my valuable live recordings from My MZ-RH910. It corrupted the disk in the same way as described by BruceC. I recorded about 2 Hrs. audio on a standard 74 min. disc in Hi LP mode. today while transferring the tracks (60 tracks), after 2 tracks sonic stage gave an error messege "error tranferring tracks" and erased all the tracks from the md. I closed sonic stage and open Hi-MD Folder from My Computer and copied all data from it to my computer's hard disk. Then i removed the md from the unit and close the write protect tab. Now when i am trying to use that md sonic stage gives an error "Cannot use this disc as an audio disc because it was initialised by a program other than sonic stage....."Is there any way to recover my recordings. These are very valuable live recordings for me. I tried to transfer those Hi-md files to another blank md but could not recover anything. Does anyone know what to do with these files to recover audio from them.Snapshot of these files are attached. (which i copied from corrupted md to Hard Disk)RegardsAashishMy MZ-RH910 did the worst possible thing -- it corrupted the disk during upload. Anyone figured out a way to recover a disk? This is the first disk I've made and, if I can't fix the disk, I'll never use the rh910 again.I don't think this is my fault. I had about 5 hours of live music recording on the disk from a one week music workshop I attended -- this disk is important to me. I had listened to the entire disk so I know the music was there. I had already uploaded about 20 tracks (of about 150 total) so I think I knew how to use Sonic Stage. I haven't checked the Sonic Stage version but I bought the rh910 just a month ago from Amazon, so I would assume it is fairly up-to-date. The rh910 was plugged directly into my computer's USB port, not through a USB hub. The rh910 was NOT plugged into the power (besides the USB) because, to plug in the USB, you have to close a little door that prevents you from plugging in the power supply. The USB is supposed to supply the power. The rh910 battery indicator said the battery was fully charged. I started a multi-track upload. The first track uploaded successfully but then the transfer stopped and an error message appeared saying the disk did not have a recognizable format! Now, I cannot even play the disk. At the moment, I am very disgusted with Sony and the rh910, and I would not recommend buying one.← Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Your first step is to update to SonicStage 3.2 , preferably with the online installer from www.connect.com . It may be able to read the disc better than older versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=8178 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynos Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 Guys, See my post http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=12138&hl= I had the same problem (ss3.0 and RH910). I upgraded to ss3.2 and everthing is fine now (at least). I still keep my corrupted MD hoping to recover someday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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