steven2 Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 I've got a minidisc I've used for over a year to record short musical compositions to, on a Sony MZ-R900. I've recorded appx 2 hours of material to appx 45 tracks. Today, after ensuring the Rec-Posi mode was set to record from the end of the disc, I began recording another composition. I quickly noticed that the display read that it was recording to track 001, rather than to track 046 or so (!!!!) I panicked and pressed stop. I have two MZ-R900s and BOTH now indicate this disc only has 1 track of audio on it -- the few seconds I just recorded today!! If anyone has experience with this type of situation, and can guide me towards possible data recovery, I'd be extremely grateful. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ZosoIV Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 (edited) To the above poster: NetMD formatted MiniDiscs don't use FAT or NTFS, and the MZ-R900 doesn't even connect to a computer to begin with.To answer the original poster's question, I believe you might be able to get back everything on the disc (minus what was recorded over) via TOC cloning. For this, you'll need a deck capable of TOC cloning, and a full disc recorded in the same mode as you used on your MZ-R900 (I’m assuming LP2?). Basically, what you would do is insert the full disc (i.e., dummy disc) into the deck. Go into "edit" and change a character or something in one of your track's names. Now, you will have to make the deck enter into service mode (see the MiniDisc.org entries on TOC cloning to determine what to do for your particular model of deck – on my deck, you hold the AMS knob in for about 10 seconds). Once in test mode, the disc will eject. Now, insert your botched MZ-R900 disc. Unplug the deck and plug it back in again...and viola! The MZ-R900 disc will contain a cloned table of contents from your full disc. This will allow you to access later areas of the disc that were not written over by your MZ-R900. Of course, the track marks and lengths will be all wrong (as they match the dummy disc, not the material on your MZ-R900 disc), but that can easily be fixed. Edited September 23, 2006 by ZosoIV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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