Cant reformat i formatted it and it erased all my music and recordings? HELP! I CANT GET IT BACK!!!!! PLEASE!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!! Does anybody no how to get back my music and recordings?

I'm pretty sure if you formatted it, it erased all of your recordings and you won't be able to get them back. That's for about anything you own and reformat it....digital camera sd card, hard drive on video camera...etc

I hate to tell you but you are stuffed, this happened to me too and spoke to Panasonic, basically there is no way. I don't use mine anymore.

sorry but you cant format a cd-r, once it has been burned its burned forever. you can only erase cd-RW i believe

If you cant erase index marks then suggest you reformat unit...instructions are in users guide...be aware this will erase all recordings.

i up greated my sansa fuze 8 gb music/ video player just wanted the sansa media player and it installed the slotradio firmware tried formatting the player with windows media player format just wanted the media converter cant ,t remove this slotradio from the menu image won,t erase anybody!!!!

the laser lens of your machine gone weak or dirty, first clean it if problem presist then it need replacment.

You need to have it connected to your Mac and then empty your Trash (on the Mac) to clear the memory on the dictaphone.

You may wish to first verify that you have indeed erased those songs (by choosing 'erase' in the 'song' menu - see page 18 in your manual) and not simply cleared out the fat partition. You cannot erase songs on the DP-01 from your computer, you can only do this in the DP-01 menus.

If you erase all the songs from a disk partitian the DP-01 is supposed to automatically create a new blank song. So the partition or the hard disk could have become corrupt because you say you aren't seeing any song there.

If you haven't already, you could try selecting another partition to be the active one (press 'menu', select the 'disk' menu, choose 'partition' and press the > arrow key. Move the arrow symbol to the partition you want to make active and press enter - see page 36 in the manual) to see if another partition works any better.

If the newly selected partition does work, but the original one didn't you might have to reformat the old partition. Re-select it as above, and follow the instructions to reformat a partition on page 37 in the manual).

If the newly selected partition doesn't work either, then your hard disk might be corrupted. At this point you could try a disk reformat (page 36 of the manual) during which you'll have to set the partition sizes. The disk format instrcution of page 36 will walk you through that too,

Hopefully it's just something simple and you won't have to get into formatting anything.

Good luck with it.

bd.

I had the same issue and just connected the device to my computer USB connection and performed a quick format on the drive and it now works. You will be warned that reformatting the drive will erase all the data, which will happen. But you can simply reload your music and be back in business... Rod

you need to format your mp3 by clicking the option button in your mp3. do not reformat in computer because it has a different system. after reformatting you need to download the sonique stage this will serve as your player in your pc and automatically transfers the music files in your mp3 once insert this into usb port. hoping that this will help you