Disklavier

Hi Ken

Glad to hear you are using Yamplayer.  RootaRipper & RipaRoot are two programs to backup the Eseq (.fil) from a protected Pianosoft disk straigt on to a PC's HDD. As such, they will only look at a floppy drive A:.

The same goes for dkvcopy, they both work by reading the floppy direct and do not use the BOOT sector of the floppy. All Pianosoft disks have their BLANK BOOT sectors with hidden files. This is the copy protection. 

Send me a private mail for more info.

Midi


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "kenmortgages" <kenmortgages@...> wrote:
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> Morning all
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> I thought I'd post this warning about new technology as I spent hours yesterday searching for the answer. Last week I took posession of a few more PianoSoft Plus disks from the US. I never use original disks - always a copy and mostly from the hard drive attached to the Disklavier, using YAMPlayer.
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> The problem - I have recently upgraded my workhorse desktop and no longer have a floppy drive inbuilt; I use a USB floppy which I transfer from PC to Notebook etc. To my horror I found that whilst I could boot from a DOS disk and load dkvcopy from the USB floppy, the program wouldn't recognise the PianoSoft disk in the floppy drive. Looking on Carol's website I came across a few other programs - riparoot for DOS and rootaripper for XP from the command window. Neither program worked with the USB floppy.
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> Solution - in a friend's office this morning, I used his old XP with in-built floppy drive - and low and behold, immediate sucess with all of the above programs! I appears that the USB drive is not recognised by the operating system even though I can boot from that drive, copy files and so forth. This is quite a worrying thing as most notebooks from about 2000 onwards don't have an inbuilt floppy drive, and most desktop motherboards don't contain a IDE output for floppy drives any more (note that to drive a floppy the IDE output is 32 pins, and IDE hard drives have 40 pin sockets - which are often present beside SATA sockets).
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> You may not need to copy/backup PianoSoft files very often but be warned you need a floppy drive which runs directly off the motherboard. I'll put in some more research but I don't think there is a simple answer - other than keeping an old legacy sytem.
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> Cheers
> Ken
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