Back when I was using my minidisc I recorded shows, stoped the recording, watched it write a TOC, and then I shut the unit off. Everything worked as it always had.
When I tried to play the recording later it acted like it was a blank disc. Now I am assuming that the data is written to the disc but maybe the TOC is bad.
I've heard being able to read the disc and create a new TOC. I think this feature was on some of the home units. Is anyboyd around here able to attempt such a thing or point me in the right direction.