So my Zune got erased accidentally a few days ago. The player shows no content on it, but still says that 50-something GB's of space are being used, which leads me to believe that the files are still on the device's drive, just not showing. I tried Recuva and had it search iPods and removable usb drives, but it says no device detected. The Zune automatically disables itself from being used as a removable drive, so I went into the registry editor and enabled it for use as a drive, but still Recuva doesn't see it. Any help?
Got erased accidentally, did you do something or it just happened without prior knowledge??
When Zune is put into removable drive mode, does Windows assign a drive letter??
Richard S.
I restarted the zune after it froze, like i've done many times. when it turned on all the categories said "no items." as far as a drive letter, i dont think so. it just shows up as emmits zune next to the os.
A media device with no assigned drive letter in Windows is likely to use MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) for handling files.
Unfortunately you cannot recover files from an MTP device because it doesn't provide direct access to the file system.
Richard S.
Are you sure it uses MTP? One more thing I might add is that when I select specify location in Recuva and browse for the device, it doesn't show up anywhere.
Are you sure it uses MTP? One more thing I might add is that when I select specify location in Recuva and browse for the device, it doesn't show up anywhere.
That's how he knows it uses MTP.
While I cannot confirm this I did find this
http://www.ehow.com/how_7684264_recover-zune.html
and
this
http://www.zuneboards.com/forums/gen-1-gen-2/11955-recover-my-zune-content.html
Both give a grey outlook on recovering if you don't have the media on your computer to resync
Is there any program that can possibly extract data from an MTP device? I know the data is still on the Zune's hard drive. There must be SOME way to access it?
For more information about MTP have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol and more importantly "Drawbacks".
Richard S.