Topic: Edirol file recovery, long story...

[ballsdeepest]

short version:

sooo, I had/have a Tesla soundcheck, Alvin Youngblood Hart and NMAS show on a 4gig SD card, recorded on an R-09 in Feb of '08

about 8 months later, during playing back the NMAS (just listening), the recorder hit the ground, not with full force, as I caught the cord enough to pull it back after 'half-impact', batteries didn't pop out, etc...

there's 6 files

1 - soundcheck
2 - Tesla show
3 - farting around
4 - Alvin Youngblood Hart show
5 - NMAS show
6 -

ANYHOW, the soundcheck is 'mostly' there (there are seconds-long dropouts, and it appears to have re-duplicated parts of the s'check on the file, haven't listened to the entire hour yet), the rest of the files are not, the headers say 0.0 bytes, and recorded at 5.2

when I try to enter the 2nd file, the deck 'locks up', and I have to pop the batteries out to kill it (i.e. the power button will NOT power down the deck)


what do I do?

I'm "beginner/beginner-intermediate" when it comes to this techie stuff, I searched here for a couple hours/am not real familiar with this site, a lot of the suggestions looked kind of greek to me, I'm thinking/hoping there's some way to fix it, but don't want to get too optimistic.

my friend does have Soundforge 9.0 and does know a lot more of the 'tech talk' than I, so you can give a somewhat detailed answer that maybe he can understand...

anyhow, fingers crossed, either answer here or email me

hagaralaska@gmail.com

thanks for your time.

-Steve (used to be 'ballsdeep' here years ago, but lost my password and my old email account is inactive, so I couldn't recover my password)

[T.J.]

There is a repair function included with the R09, although I don't know if it's applicable in this situation (it has worked for me in the past):

Select the file in the list view by highlighting it and pressing record.
Scroll to the very bottom of the list of available functions (select, info, delete, rename, etc..).
If the file is damaged the 'repair' option will be present at the bottom of the list (you must scroll down to see it)
Select by pressing 'record' and the R-09 writes a new header for the file.

good luck!

[crazifyngers]

If the built in recovery feature does not work take a look at the bottom of
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=117279.0 it has a some info on the zero byte problem you mentioned. good luck i just lost some data after shrinking a volume too much...i was able to get most of it back.

[ballsdeepest]

There is a repair function included with the R09, although I don't know if it's applicable in this situation (it has worked for me in the past):

Select the file in the list view by highlighting it and pressing record.
Scroll to the very bottom of the list of available functions (select, info, delete, rename, etc..).
If the file is damaged the 'repair' option will be present at the bottom of the list (you must scroll down to see it)
Select by pressing 'record' and the R-09 writes a new header for the file.

good luck!

no, the repair option is not available


crazi, I'll check the bottom of that column.


anyone else?

[rhinowing]

have you tried both of the following:

1. pulling the files off on a cpu with a built in card slot
2. pulling them off with the edirol connected via usb cable

the latter worked for me once when I couldn't get a file off a card using the first method

[ballsdeepest]

so, www.cardrecovery.com was recommended, and now the plot thickens...

the site, when I emailed them, told me after I explained the situations, that I was fucked on the audio card, but should be fine on the photo card.

instead, the converse is true.

the 256MB photo card, it says EVERY sector is bad and nothing is recoverable.

the 4 gig audio card, it says has NO bad sectors, and all 3839MB ARE recoverable...but it broke the card into 30 "files" even though there were only 6 originally, and they want 40 bucks.


would I need to 'splice' them back together?

any help, again, would be appreciated...