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Mark IV hard drive challenge

2014-09-06 by orionplt@...

So our hard drive seems to be dying. The last network update created all kinds of havoc. It was play great until I updated it after which it couldn't read any of the music files and would routinely kick the PRC-100 offline. I am guessing that the drive was on the edge and the heavy writes required by the update did it in.


I have pulled the drive out of the Disklavier and am running recovery software on it now. It has found several bad sectors across a few of the partitions on the drive. Of course I hadn't done a backup of the music we have on it (stupidity on my part for not treating like the computer that it is) and I don't believe we still have all the disks to reload it (retired Navy with 6 moves with the piano). I am trying to figure out the partition structure on the drive. There seems to be 9 partitions. Does anyone know what the various partitions are for? I know it is a Linux operating system so it has root and swap partitions. I also figured that one (believe it is partition 9) has all the music files.


I am hoping that the recovery software can read the content and move the bad sectors. If not I have to figure out how to get the 3 recovery CDs and reload the system. Any help with how to get the recovery/installation CDs and do a fresh system install would be appreciated. The good part of this is that I have learn a lot more about our Disklavier and found this group. I am also using the opportunity to replace our drive with a SSD and make a clone.


Thanks,

Joel

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