HEEEELP! But probably nothing you can do, damn BR800 heading out the window

[Ferryman]

I think I may be doing a bassfest cover of the Autumn Song. The BR800 is fine with a new card, well I haven't recorded anything but it initialized ok and the card read error message has gone. Will try some recovery tools later.

I was saving my 10,000th for something special, and when your problem came along it seemed only fitting, as the sole reason for me being here at all is that I got "CARD READ ERROR" on my MBR and searched for a solution, thus stumbling onto this wonderful part of the web.

Now that is a fantastic story and I truly do feel honoured! At least this thread has stopped me throwing the BR800 out of the window (so far at least) and is making me feel a bit more positive. After about 2 years of doing very little I finally got some music underway. Of course I was taking too long, spending too much time on too many tracks and when this happened I was ready to give up again! Let's hope the SD card can be recovered.

[Hook]

Bassfest is dead for me.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[Ferryman]

It's looking bad because it is a file corruption error, not an SD Card issue. The card is readable. I can't imagine recovery programs will be able to recover data from proprietary Boss .BR0 files, but I will give it a try.

[alfstone]

It's looking bad because it is a file corruption error, not an SD Card issue. The card is readable. I can't imagine recovery programs will be able to recover data from proprietary Boss .BR0 files, but I will give it a try.

Did you try chkdsk utility, after loading the card on a card reader?

Alfredo

[Flash Harry]

Nigel, I'm gutted. I was really looking forward to asking you to turn the bass up. Now that opportunity has been lost forever.

It's a real shame the files got screwed.

[Ferryman]

Sadly I am totally screwed. File/SD recovery programs don't help because the file is there and the disk can be read. File repair programs (I tried a couple) don't work with .BR0 files. Bloody BR800. It's clearly a problem caused by the hardware rather than the disk, which seems fine.  

[Ferryman]

Nigel, I'm gutted. I was really looking forward to asking you to turn the bass up. Now that opportunity has been lost forever.

It's a real shame the files got screwed.

Which bass? I had 16 tracks of bass (ok some were stereo)!!! Really annoyed by this. The track was a bit ploddy in places but there were some very cool bass sounds. I had the bass going through chained distortion units with effects on top, octaviders, bass through my old Memory Man echo in stereo (sounded great!) and so much more.

[Ferryman]

But wait!!! As a last resort I tried chkdsk as suggested by Alfredo and it does appear to have repaired the file. Whether it will actually work remains to be seen.....

Keep your fingers crossed all......

UPDATE: Wave Converter can read the wav files now! I could be back on track....... (forgive the pun). Will load the wavs into my DAW later and see if they work.

Thanks Alfredo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope the track lives up to the hype if I get it back....

[Oldrottenhead]

yeah baby.

[Ferryman]

I have managed to extract the wav files, they seem to play ok. Onward and upward!