kentek Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 I think I'm on the right forum.Does anyone know what the HiMD file system is? I thought it was FAT but now I'm not sure.Also, Do Group Folders show up as named folders or is it all munged up within the one big file I see on the filelist.One would think that you could create a Directory Tree and move stuff around. Well, can you?My recorder is a MD-RH1. As a complete newbee to HiMD I'm starting form scratch.thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcnet Posted October 6, 2006 Report Share Posted October 6, 2006 I think the filesystem is FAT (as the HIMD is recognised as a USB storage device, even with a PC that does not have Sonicstage installed). What makes you think otherwise?The music side of Hi-MD (Group folders, Track names, audio data, etc) is all stored in the few files in the HIMD folder. The structure of these files are Sony's invention, so there is no easy way to decode them via File Explorer.Also, normal files can be stored on HI-MD disks by using File Explorer - just like a normal USB storage device (except HI-MD is slower). These files do not show up in SonicStage and the actual HI-MD device does not use or read them when playing / recording tracks. Only when looking for free space on the disk does it take note of such file - just so it simply dosn't overwrite them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kentek Posted October 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 I think the filesystem is FAT (as the HIMD is recognised as a USB storage device, even with a PC that does not have Sonicstage installed). What makes you think otherwise?The music side of Hi-MD (Group folders, Track names, audio data, etc) is all stored in the few files in the HIMD folder. The structure of these files are Sony's invention, so there is no easy way to decode them via File Explorer.Also, normal files can be stored on HI-MD disks by using File Explorer - just like a normal USB storage device (except HI-MD is slower). These files do not show up in SonicStage and the actual HI-MD device does not use or read them when playing / recording tracks. Only when looking for free space on the disk does it take note of such file - just so it simply dosn't overwrite them.I was pretty sure it was FAT. I proved it after I used Win Explorer to drag-drop a jpg file, then I added a new folder and dropped the jpg into it.Immediately after this exercise the HiMD looked different to the XP tools: disc Manager recognized it as a FAT partition and provided property information.I used the HiMD out of the box w/o formating first.I think I will always re-format any new HiMD disc that I purchase.Thanks for you help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlesraf Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 Yo can also reformat the Hi-Md disc to others file sistem, like NTFS or EXT2.But it's file system , file system that is no FAT, it's not reconigze for the Walkman to record music, just computer data, if you want to record music you must to reformat again whit FAT file System.If you use the Hi_Md for data only storage, and Windows, is better to reformat the current FAT to NTFS, that is more secure than standard FAT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaywardTraveller Posted October 7, 2006 Report Share Posted October 7, 2006 I'm not sure about the RH1, but the RH10/RH910 also allow you to view a list of (but not execute/access) files stored via USB on a Hi-MD-formatted disc.peaceWaywardTraveller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unignal Posted October 12, 2006 Report Share Posted October 12, 2006 But why does Hi-MD's removable disk don't work on mac? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted October 12, 2006 Report Share Posted October 12, 2006 Works fine as a removable disc on our G5 running OSX Tiger... What unit do you have?What OS version are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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