Please help. Something went very wrong!

[musicalsari]

I'm quite new to the world of minidisc but loving it so far.

Was recording an interview with my mz-nh700 and everything seemed to be going fine execpt that the "system file writing" took ages and ended in error. Tried to play the minidisc back to see if the other interviews I had done were ok and it flashes a message "format error disc" then askes "format to record or play? Push yes enter no cancel". Tried inserting a blank minidisc and that seemed to work ok and came up as blank.

I havent pressed anything yet as Im too scared to! But what should i do and will it be possible to save my other interviews?! if i push enter will I lose everything? Im very very stupid as I havent got round to backing them up yet.

Thanks so much for your help.

[A440]

Formatting will erase the disc, so don't do that.

Brace yourself because you may (through no fault of your own) have lost everything on the disc. Minidisc recording throws everything on the disc into one big encrypted file--including all your previously recorded interviews that were working before. One glitch and the whole thing is garbled.

If you have an old SonicStage, upgrade it to version 3.4 or above--from Sony or from an installer in Downloads here.

Try putting the disc in the unit, opening SonicStage and connecting the unit. In rare cases, SonicStage can somehow read the disc even when the unit can't. If it can, then upload and feel very lucky.

Otherwise you need to contact http://www.sonymediaservices.com/ . If it's important, they may be able to recover it for a price, and in fact were able to do so for one disc of mine.

[musicalsari]

Formatting will erase the disc, so don't do that.

Brace yourself because you may (through no fault of your own) have lost everything on the disc. Minidisc recording throws everything on the disc into one big encrypted file--including all your previously recorded interviews that were working before. One glitch and the whole thing is garbled.

If you have an old SonicStage, upgrade it to version 3.4 or above--from Sony or from an installer in Downloads here.

Try putting the disc in the unit, opening SonicStage and connecting the unit. In rare cases, SonicStage can somehow read the disc even when the unit can't. If it can, then upload and feel very lucky.

Otherwise you need to contact http://www.sonymediaservices.com/ . If it's important, they may be able to recover it for a price, and in fact were able to do so for one disc of mine.

Thanks it worked a treat.