Hallelauyah!
The
Holy Grail has finally been grasped.
I have
had several dd disks which werer recorded almost 10 years ago on a diskalvier
Mark II by a friend in Yamaha *.fil (eseq)
format
Years
ago I converted the files via Giebler and backed up
those converted files to an earlier Hard Drive which is now dearly
departed.
So all
I have left are these old dd disk
Anyway, because of the vagaries of XP, I could never
open these particular disks...my OS kept saying the disks were
unformatted.
Even
using the patched Giebler in DOS or Giebler under CPU killer, I simpy could not
get theses disks to open and reveal their contents!
As a
consequence, these "*.fil" files were "locked" on these disks...I
thought forever.
Along
come the magicians of the DUG and provide the 2 solutions to my
problem:
1.
"Rootaripper" which magically reads these dd disks under XP and captures the
*.fil to a destination on my hard drive.
2. The
eseq to midi converter utility (I could have used Giebler under CPU killer but I
wanted to try the easier route) which converted the *.fil to *.mid
And
guess what? IT WORKED!!
I have
now successfully retrieved all of the eseq files I had on all my of my old dd
disks...I went through all of them and I even found some files on some old dd
disks that I did not even know I still had!!
Having
upgraded my Mark II several months ago with a new XG controller unit, I am
now officially free of the unwieldy and user-unfriendly DOS, Giebler, *.fil and
*.esq system
But,
if I ever encounter one of those files again from an old dd disk, I now have the
tools to unlock the disk and retrieve the files.
I have
not tried the program on pianosoft diskettes, but I have no reason to doubt that
it would not work...I have yet to encounter a dd disk the program could not
open, and I tried several dozen!
Thank
you midi magic for making this happen.
And
thank you to the developer of eseq to midi...I want to thank you also
personally, even though I do not know your name
Your
programs are a godsend!!
How
lucky to have this DUG discussion group
My 10
year old disklavier is now only 1 generation behind...while I cannot make it a
silent piano or get it to play the new CD's, it is as versatile a player
piano in 2003 as I hoped it could ever be!!
Yamaha
should seriously consider putting the XG upgrade kit back into continuous
production for the benefit of earlier
Disklavier owners!!
Thank
you all for your time
Sheldon Deluty
-----Original Message-----Hi All
From: midi_magic2000 [mailto:magic_midi@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:25 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [disklavier] RootARipper & RipARoot
They are HERE, at last. Well I've had them for a while now but now we
can pass them on.
A very good friend of mine has just finished writing two small
utilities for "floppy disk recovery" that may be of interest to the
group.
Both of these are Freeware. Please send me your feedback as it is
nice to know how well they perform.
Basically they will read a floppy that has a bad or missing boot
sector, taking the files from the root directory and saving them to
your HDD.
One is for NT, 2000 and XP and the other is for DOS. Sorry, but we do
not have it working for Win 95, 98 nor ME yet.
DKVCOPY and Giebler will work but you must use 720K disks. They will
NOT read or work with 1.44M disks. These programs will work with 720K
and 1.44M disks.
RootARipper works for NT, 2000 and XP
RipARoot Works for DOS
NO MORE HAVING TO USE 720K Disks.
I have posted them to the files section.
Midi Magic
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