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If anyone has any idea about older voice recorders then that would be great.
I have two of them actually: an Olympus vn240PC and an Olympus DS30. The vn240pc is an older version from about maybe mid 2000's.
Last year when I lost some files on the DS30 recorder I was able to recover them by first totally uninstalling the Olympus DSS 7 software so that windows would load the DS30 recorder as a drive in explorer. By using Recuva I was able to successfully get all deleted files back from the dead from the DS30.
Not long ago I just lost a file with the vn240PC recorder and I tried uninstalling the digital wave player software as well as use another usb port and I cannot for the life of me get the older recorder to show up as a device under explorer.
I went to a couple of sites and many people said that you can't undelete files from flash recorders because any drive that doesn't have it's own recycle bin cannot be retrieved. I proved this wrong since I was able to do undelete successfully last year with the DS30. Olympus even states that it is impossible to undelete files as well.
The last thing I did come across was a response from a poster that explained about the problem and I sort of understand it and this guy has the same recorder I do:
"Jan 28, 2009
- I have the same problem except mine is an Olympus VN-240PC ... and basically I think we're both screwed. The problem is not a lack of file recovery software. I already have RecoverMyFiles ... (great program by the way). The problem is that Olympus, in their infinite wisdom, seem to have locked the device's internal memory. Windows does not recognise the recorder as an "external device" when it is simply plugged in using a USB cord. You plug it in - it says PC on the recorder's screen - but go to "My Computer" and it's not listed alongside your C internal drive, disk drive, whatever. RecoverMy Files cant work on a device the computer cannot technically "see". I'd love to be proven wrong on this point. If anyone knows of a way to override Olympus stupid gimping of their own product, then tell me about it please. DAN. "
What I'm not understanding completely is how the flash memory could be locked out? Is this a one-way connection, recorder to computer but not computer to recorder?
The file I need is very important and if I can get the drive to show up I can recover the file from the device, no question. I remember recording it, yet it doesn't show in the folder it should be in and I do not ever recall transferring from the device since if I did the files would be backed up and the device would be totally empty. That's been my routine for years.
If anyone would know if it is possible to have an older recorder be shown as a usb device, volume, in an explorer that would be nice.
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