Sunny Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Dear All,Although I've been using old-style MDs for 3 years and was a total convert, I've only recently discovered this very helpful community forum. I had a fantastic Sony MZ-R7O which was great until it started deleting all my discs at the beginning of this year! I'm a total MD supporter so I bought a new MZ-NH600. It worked for a bit, but I've had so many problems recording & compliling great discs which then need "formatting to record or play". Everyone I know is now telling me to convert to MP3 but I want to find a solution to this problem! I'm just wondering if anyone can help or advise about the incessant problems I've been having with recording on my Hi-MD recorder - I keep getting the error "FORMAT DISC ERROR". It's happened 3 or 4 times (you'd think I'd learn, and not lose all my edited tracks every time...) I can't check if it's the music source because it's the only radio I have with a line out. (It's a digital radio, but an analogue line out if that makes any difference). I've tried using brand new Hi-discs after checking this site and concluding that it might be some faulty Hi-MDs, but that doesn't seem to help. So maybe it's the player/connection/source! It often seems to happen after I've edited and labelled most of the other tracks already on the (Hi-)MD and then leave it recording while I go out - so it records to the end of the disc and then maybe has a problem storing the music? So unlike some of the other postings on this site about this error, it's not to do with SonicStage.I was just wondering if there had been a consensus about what caused this problem for other people - the MD unit/cable line in/faulty discs/faulty source etc... or if anyone had any advice on recovering the hours of work put into each disc before they were rendered "unformatted".Many thanks for taking the time to read this.P.S. Also, is it a bad thing if the Hi-MD player is left in pause-record mode? And how long is this acceptable for, couple of hours? Just wondering if that might affect things or if it damages the machine. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastianbf Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 (edited) First of all: Welcome to the forums!The problem you have has nothing to do with your radio. I have a question for you: this problem always showns in the same discs? Another thing, I think that this is a problem with your player. So, if it's still under warranty period you should take it to a service center (you have nothing to lose). About your p.s:It's not a bad thing. Indeed, I read a post a pair of months ago about people testing battery life under record/pause mode (they left their units all night in rec/pause mode). Personally, I have left my recorder for many hours into rec/pause mode, and still not a single problem. Edited September 23, 2005 by sebastianbf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted September 24, 2005 Report Share Posted September 24, 2005 I guess the main problem could be editing on the recorder and then recording till the end... perhaps it 'overloads' the disc as it has some edited info stored or something, sounds quite illogical, but there have been quite some bugs with HiMD and editing on the recorder known ... so just record, upload then edit on the PC and it could be solved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunny Posted September 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2005 Thanks very much to both of you for your advice. Yes Sebastianf, it's always the same discs, some work fine, and I think you're right, will take it back to the place I bought it for them to send it to Sony. Thanks for the advice on leaving it in pause-rec mode too. Think I read the same posts, but weren't sure if they were talking about Hi-MDs or normal. And thanks Low Volta, I am coming to the same conclusion as you about this "overloading" theory when I think about the situations in which I've had problems. I'll try uploading and editing on the PC. Thank you.I have managed to recover a few tracks on the problem discs through SonicStage 3.2 (I stupidly didn't even try this because I thought it would just cause more problems...) Anyway, thankfullly SonicStage recognises that there is stuff on the disc! Transferring them seems to be another battle altogether though! I keep getting an "Omgjbox.exe has encountered an error and needs to close" which is making the process slow and painful! If it worked it would be so fantastic! (I should have looked around the forum on advice for this problem too before posting this reply!) Anyway, just wanted to say thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastianbf Posted September 25, 2005 Report Share Posted September 25, 2005 Anyway, thankfullly SonicStage recognises that there is stuff on the disc! you lucky boy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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