Kas van Iersel wrote,
| Well, guess what. My MD's won't talk to me anymore. After recording what
| must have been track 61 (makes me cringe to think of all the good stuff I've
| lost), as I tried playing a track, it just sat there, winking "NO TRACK" at
| me, with three zeroes. Everything was gone.
|
| - We use Denon, the cartridge style. This particular model is a 900.
| - I did try playing on another machine, same type. No go.
| - There was plenty of recording time left on the MD.
| - Same thing happened to another MD - same victim.
| - I did close the recording track correctly, by pushing the 'standby/cue'
| button, getting out of record mode.
|
| How can I reclaim the lost material?
Two possibilities: the data were recorded but the TOC wasn't saved (or the
TOC was trashed); or the data weren't even recorded.
In the first case, cloning a TOC from a disc that is filled with a single
track (stereo or mono, whichever applies to the data you lost) will recover
it; most Sony decks and Sharp slot-in portables can clone, but I don't know
about Denons, and in any case I wouldn't trust it to that machine.
In the second case, you're out of luck. Was any of the material recorded
in previous sessions and playable before this happened? Then perhaps the
older tracks are recoverable. The only way to know for sure is the same:
clone the TOC from a disc filled with one track.
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