cybrgrey Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 Hi I have been trying since 2004 to find out how to recover an MD with family interviews that I accidentally erased but then did nothing, as I realised it was just the TOC that was erased.I got lots of "useful" tips from this site an others on how to record a full MD of nothing an fool the naughty MD into accepting that TOC, resulting in a single long audio file that you then add the track tags back to.Unfortunately this all required a full deck not just the walkman model I was operating with.Finally after contacting various national sound archives etc someone at a local community radio station (who did not use MDs) gave me a link to a UK company. http://www.esdl.co.uk/who deal with the forensic recovery of MD data.They weren't cheap 75 GBPs but as the content was important to me I went ahead with it. Within the week I had the MD returned plus a CD of the material to boot.Thank you Tim at Electronic Design Laboratory (sounds like an ad but it isn't, I am just very very happy about regaining some important family files)I hope this helps someone suffering the same frustration.cheersCraig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted June 13, 2008 Report Share Posted June 13, 2008 Glad you were able to get the material recovered. Sorry it cost you a fair bit (I have been doing MD recovery to help forum members here for just a trade of a few blank discs). Check out the TOC-Cloning link in my signature, which might provide you with some more info on the subject (I use a Sony portable for recovery). Also, don't hesitate to PM me if you have other discs that suffered the same fate, or if you have any questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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