Hey folks.
Two nights ago, I was doing an overnight recording using a HI-MD recorder, =
recording directly into the unit via standard(read, cheap), condenser mics(=
I'd guess unbalanced if that makes any difference).
Anyway...it was quite cold and the battery appeared to die about 3 hours in=
to the recording. This has happened before, and when the battery gave out =
early, the recorder has in the past always auto-saved the recording just pr=
ior to shutting down.
This night though things went a bit differently. I was using a disc I had =
also used the night before, so there was already a full nights recording on=
it(I have to use lp mode, I know it sacrifices quality, but this is simply=
used for survey work..so total quality is secondary to a degree to simply =
getting the targeted wildlife). Anyway, when I went to check the recorder j=
ust before heading into my tent, I realised it was off completely. I turne=
d it on, and while it came on, it would only playback for 1:41 seconds. Od=
dly...this was all it could pull up.
I tried two or three times, put in new batteries..no difference. Then...I =
suddenly got a messages saying "cannot record or play".
This continued on into the next day(yesterday), I was unable to access ANY =
of the recording files, even the ones saved from the previous night.
When I got home and opened Sony's software to work with the recording, I go=
t the same issue, but it stated that "the disc has been formatted using an =
unknown process. Please reformat using your Sony recorder to allow use of =
this disc". OF course...reformatting wipes the disc clean. In the end, I =
had no choice if I wanted to use the disc...so given that nothing of great =
importance had been recorded, I opted to do so.
So...any ideas on what happened? I did NOT reformat before the error, and =
indeed, had used the disc the previous night with no issues.
A recording that I had already in part listened to(and was thus saved) was =
ALSO caught up in the odd "reformat" issues.
Any idea what happened? I'm just trying to avoid the same issue again down=
the road.
Thanks, Paul
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