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At Philcon, I promised to share the links to the data recovery tools that I used to save some wav recordings from the Zoom H2 that had battery failure.

With a bit of googling, I was able to find directions that allowed me to backup the SD card with the data loss on my mac.

While the directions mention a Zoom H4n, it does work for recovery on the H2.

Note - These directions are MAC ONLY for the backup method, the recovery should work on windows, too, if you ignore the backup option.

http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/30/869554

Its copying the information from -
http://zoomforum.us/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=17991

This only recovers data if the file size is greater than 0k.  (I was able to recover 2GB of recordings via these instructions.)  This does not recover data that has the 0k in size.

As for recovering the 0k files, I was able to recover the recordings via a different method.

While I did not locate the source of the lead that sent me to this site, the video recovery program does recover deleted data (including the audio) from SD cards.

https://eww.pass.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/support/dload/avccam_recov/dl_e.htm

Both Windows and Mac versions (Mac thru 10.8) are on the site.   It also pulls back a lot of other data that you have deleted in the past.