Last Friday I was out for the Trampled By Turtles CD release party and was using a brand spanking new SanDisk 4GB CF card.
- I formatted the card in my Tascam HD-P2 and recorded part of one opener, a second opener and TBTs.
- When I got home I couldn't access the CF card in several different card readers or by hooking the P2 up to the computer via firewire.
- I was able to see and play on the P2 the second opener and TBT's but the first opener was non existent.
- I finally was able to mount the CF card in a card reader and run a dos chkdsk via a command prompt and that gave me this:
C:\Documents and Settings\rodeen>chkdsk i: /f
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume Serial Number is 0804-0025
The \ entry contains a nonvalid link.
Windows is verifying files and folders...
The \4gb_cf entry contains a nonvalid link.
\4gb_cf\Audio Files\file01.wav is cross-linked on allocation unit 8.
Cross link resolved by copying.
File and folder verification is complete.
Lost chain cross-linked at cluster 24592. Orphan truncated.
Convert lost chains to files (Y/N)? Y
1835008 bytes in 1 recovered files.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
4,091,052,032 bytes total disk space.
98,304 bytes in 3 folders.
2,980,085,760 bytes in 6 files.
1,110,835,200 bytes available on disk.
32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
124,849 total allocation units on disk.
33,900 allocation units available on disk.
C:\Documents and Settings\rodeen>
After the chkdsk there was a directory called FOUND.000 in the root directory of the CF card and it looked like:
I:\FOUND.000>dir
Volume in drive I has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 0804-0025
Directory of I:\FOUND.000
02/17/2007 01:16 PM <DIR> .
02/17/2007 01:16 PM <DIR> ..
02/17/2007 01:16 PM 1,835,008 FILE0000.CHK
1 File(s) 1,835,008 bytes
2 Dir(s) 1,110,835,200 bytes free
I:\FOUND.000>
I ended up with the three files on the CF but the size of the first file is way off. It should only be 100MB tops but shows up as:
I:\4gb_cf\Audio Files>dir
Volume in drive I has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 0804-0025
Directory of I:\4gb_cf\Audio Files
02/16/2007 08:18 PM <DIR> .
02/16/2007 08:18 PM <DIR> ..
02/16/2007 10:12 PM 803,831,808 file00.wav
02/16/2007 11:11 PM 803,838,976 file01.wav
02/17/2007 12:52 AM 1,370,487,808 file02.wav
3 File(s) 2,978,158,592 bytes
2 Dir(s) 1,110,835,200 bytes free
I:\4gb_cf\Audio Files>
The timestamps are pretty much accurate. Files file01.wav and file02.wav are pretty close to accurate sizes for the 24/48 recordings.
Can anyone help me save these files?
Any thoughts on the CF card? It's really hard to mess something up with the P2. Nothing unusual happened during the show with the exception of running on internal batteries for a while during the second set before I plugged in the external battery again (while it was recording.
+T's to anyone who can help!
Thanks!