Trying to recover NWZ-1060 32gb MP3 whilst away travelling

[zero5uk]

Hi

Upon using a YHA Linux machine in NZ, my mp3 player (Sonys new touchscreen one) decided to partially format itself and all my music, videos and pictures (5gb of Australia) are no longer accessible. Everytime the unit is disconnected from a PC I get:

The device was not formatted correctly, please re-format via settings.

Obviously I never wanted to format in the first place, but now trying to recover somehow. I was pointed towards active @ partition recovery, but it and others do not recognise USB/flash drives as drives. All hardware such as C, D, DVD drives and memory card readers appear, but not anything connected via USB. Am I being stupid?

Really need some help.

Thanks

[zero5uk]

Over 200 views and no reply?

Maybe I waffled.....surly somebody has recovered a deleted/formatted MP3 player before? I've had no joy with customer support - if it isnt recognised as a drive they have nothing more to say, but why are my USB plug ins not coming up? On any machine?

Desperate to get this thing back to life - not having music whilst biking is quite hard.

[zero5uk]

You can turn it into a drive by turning off MTP (media transfer protocol) and turning on USB mass storage, via right clicking "my computer"/manage and then updating the driver/select from a specific location (advanced) of the device (found in portable devices). Now it is recognised as a drive and able to be scanned!

http://eugeneboon.com/hello-world/