Originally Posted By: hothaus1
I also took it to a local data recovery shop but they could not plug into it either.


Huh? It's a standard laptop-size 44-pin PATA connector. Sure, it's a bit dated, but I'm surprised that they can't find a USB-PATA adaptor in a drawer somewhere. I can.

It's partitioned with a standard MBR, and the file system is formatted as ext2. Even a modern Linux PC should be able to understand that.

However, the contents are opaque. We renamed all of your music files. See Empeg File Structures.
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