| themeanies 2005-05-23, 2:45 am |
| While not exactly on topic, it's close.
Had a user bring me an Olympus DM-1 today. This is a small handheld
digital voice recorder. It uses regular removable SmartMedia for
storage. Long story short user1 had a 3 hour recording on it, user2
thinking the unit was available used the DM-1's format feature to format
the SmartMedia to re-claim the space. So I need to try and recover the
recording that was on the SmartMedia prior to format. The DM-1 uses
FAT16 file system and recordings are saved as .dss files. Should be
easy enough. Not so. I've tried all the following on a test piece of
SmartMedia without any success:
BadCopy Pro
R-Studio
DiskInternals
F-Recovery
WinImage
Looks like when the DM-1 formats media it creates a new file structure
for storing it's config files and audio recordings. The format is
really quick, so I doubt it has time to zero out the entire disk.
So has anyone dealt much with SmartMedia? Is there something going on
here different from a hard-disk or other media? Is there any hope of
recovering the file structure prior to the format? Any other programs
to try other than those I've listed above?
Thanks,
tM
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