> I recently received a parabola and have enjoyed recording the first
spring
> bird songs here in Idaho. Among the sounds I recorded were an American
> dipper with very little background water sound, as well as meadowlarks
> belting out their song with my growling stomach in the background. As I
> edited out the extraneous sounds on my Sony NetMD player/recorder I
became
> weary and accidentally erased the entire disc! I haven't touched the
disc
> since, hoping that there is some way to retrieve the data. The dippers
are
> finishing up with singing now and I'd like to salvage those songs. Any
> ideas?
All is not lost!!! How do we recover the audio ?
Portadisc can help, although a bit contrived but works.
Get another blank disc , insert in Portadisc and record a single track al=
l
the way through. When finished, do not eject the disc - just remove all
power - this prevents the TOC from being written - instead the TOC info wil=
l
be stored in an internal buffer. When the power is removed, take off top
cover (4 screws) and manually eject disc - turn the big white gear
anti-clockwise.
Now retrieve the disc which you want to un-erase and manually load the disc
by turning the big white gear clockwise (a little pressure on the disc
itself will help the gear grab the disc). Once disc is fully loaded,
reconnect power and turn on. The Portadisc knows that power was lost before
it had a chance to update the last TOC, so will write the TOC stored in its
memory to disc. We will now have a disc with a single track containing the
previously erased material.
best regards
Paul , HHB
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