Masterlink file recovery?

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I rented my Masterlink to a gentleman who recorded a continuous live
performance, put the machine in pause and then powered it down. I assume
this prevented the Masterlink from writing the recording information to the
FAT on the drive. As he is certain he was in fact recording and I know the
drive was freshly formatted (via Masterlink utility) before the performance,
does anyone know of a way to recover the FAT-less music information from the
drive?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

Charles Tomaras
Seattle, WA

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"Charles Tomaras" <tomaras@tomaras.com> wrote in message news:ZNmdndJARdhY8VLcRVn-1A@comcast.com...
> I rented my Masterlink to a gentleman who recorded a continuous
> live performance, put the machine in pause and then powered it down.
> I assume this prevented the Masterlink from writing the recording
> information to the FAT on the drive. As he is certain he was in fact
> recording and I know the drive was freshly formatted (via Masterlink
> utility) before the performance, does anyone know of a way to
> recover the FAT-less music information from the drive?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts on this.
>
> Charles Tomaras
> Seattle, WA
>
I know nothing about Masterlink. But get the drive out of the recorder
without even turning it on again. Then connect it to a computer as a
secondary drive and see what you can find with a low-level disk editor.
It would be nice to first make a raw image backup of the entire drive.
Don't allow the operating system to do anything automatically. Don't
allow anything whatsoever to be written to the drive until you are
absolutely sure you know how to recover the data. You probably
need help from a local computer recording techno-geek.