hd5 lost music

[Susan Anderson]

Help. I went to access my HD5 music from Explorer, noticed some mp3 files, and deleted one file. I then went to play an Atrac file thru SonicStage with the same song name, and it would not recognize it or play it. I then went to my HD5 player and it stated "repairing database" and would not pull up any of my music. Now it does not even say "repairing database" and still shows no music (on the player or on SonicStage). SonicStage shows 18.6 GB free and there is an OMGAUDIO file with .dat files. HELP. I have no backup of the music I had on my player and no Libary. Is there a way to recover the music I had on the player? I did not delete it so I don't understand exactly what happened to my database of music.

Thanks, Susan

[kino170878]

1. It sounds like all the music from the player has been erased. I think only Sony might be able to recover them.

2. Always keep a back up of your files in at least two places. Everybody first learns about this the hard way unfortunately.

Edited November 24, 2007 by kino170878

[Susan Anderson]

I discovered a free recovery program that worked. I got all my songs back. Luckily, I did not initialize and lose all my data.

It is called SoftPerfect File Recovery

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html