Topic: Newbie help - can show be recovered?

[Songcatcher]

I went out last night to record a show with my DR100 MKII. I checked out the sd card at home and found I had over 5 hours of recording time remaining - more than enough. I get to the club and get set up with a sbd patch,set my levels with the last song of the opening act and I think I'm good to go. Headliner comes on and I press record and I get a "card full" message. Thinking I'd screwed up and  had grabbed the wrong card, I quickly pulled out another,got a message that it needed to be formatted (even though I was sure I had formatted the card before). I did a quick format and got rolling during the first tune. Show was great,and at the end I sampled a bit of the recording to see how the mix turned out. Seemed fine. I shut down the recorder and went home. This morning I go to play the show through my stereo and I get an error message that says MBR error - init card (are you sure?). I am definitely not sure what I want to do. I tried another card and the Tascam locked up and I was unable to power it down. I pulled out the wall wart,the aa's and the internal to shut it down. When it came back up,it would now read any card except last night's show,which still has the same error code.

Questions:

1). Can the show be recovered? I am nearly computer illiterate, so it's likely beyond my capabilities.
2.) Did I do something wrong to cause this? The card I have trouble with is the one supplied by the manufacturer.
3.) Is there reason to hold the future working of the Tascam in question? It 's worked perfectly so far,and I hate to have gear I'm uncertain of.

As always,thanks for your help and opinions.

[rhinowing]

tried reading the card with another device?

[TimeBandit]

what worked for me (Tascam DR5): just pulled out the card after the error message and i shut down the recorder (via pulling out batteries  because it froze). I hope you didn't even try to format the card or write on it from the OS after the failure. But when it says MBR failure i think your recording is finally lost or recovery is much more expensive.

My Dr-5 had also an issue with some Transcend cards, but i was able to rescure the recordings with the "0 Byte" file size:

1. run chkdsk :[drive letter] /f on the card
2. search for the .chk file that was created on your hard drive (maybe it is hidden by the windows machine, i used a knoppix boot disk to make it viewable) and rename that .chk to .wav
3. use "audiohack"; audiohack /N [file.wav]
4. import the created .raw file to an audio editor (use raw import, not open), like import raw in audacity, usually the machine records "little endian", and choose sample frequency and bit depth you did in the recording
5. now you`ve got the file back (or most of the file until the moment the machine crashed), and go on like normal (mastering if neccessary, then export to Wave, Flac etc ...)


now i ordered some cards from the compatibility list if the issue is solved, maybe do some tests if the pre record function causes the crashes... firmware is newest.

my old dr7 just recorded on all cards just even cheap chinese ones i feel the newer Tascams aren't that reliable. Now ordered memory cards listed at Tascams official list.

[Songcatcher]

Thanks for the replies. Sorry for the delay from me;I was away this weekend.

I took the card over to my computer buddy yesterday. He could not read the card in any of his devices either. I had hoped he would try to recover the files,but he didn't offer and I wasn't going to press him to do so. I'm glad to hear that someone else has recovered files from a crashed card. I'll print TimeBandit's method and see if I can get someone local to have a go at it for me. Thanks!