Thanks for the suggestions, I will pick up something similar and go from there.

My objective here is different than that of the OP. Through entirely my own fault I have lost all my music on my computers and backups. However, 90% of it is in my Empeg so what I am attempting to do is retrieve it from the player back to my PC.

In an attempt to read the HD directly, I also took the HD out of the player, but I cannot plug it into my PC or external USB HD, I guess it is too old. I also took it to a local data recovery shop but they could not plug into it either.

Other ideas welcomed!