Disklavier

Hello Ian,

First order of business:  set the write protect slider on the diskette
to expose the hole, preventing anything from making further writes to
the diskette until you recover the files.   Do not put the diskette into
the Disklavier again.

If you have a PC with a floppy drive, see if you can copy the files from
the diskette that way.

If that results in errors or nothing shows up, contact me privately and
I should be able to recover the files for you.

Mark Fontana


On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 09:29 +0000, ianftyoung wrote:

> Dear Group Members,
> I have just joined your group after been talking to Yamaha service. I had rung them yesterday in a panic as I had just made a very grave mistake!
> My children have done four years of piano exams and every exam I had recorded them onto a 3.5 disk on my Disklavier Mark III. Yesterday they did another set of exams and whilst recording their pieces I made a grave error. I ejected the disk before it had finished writhing the piece to the disk. 
> I had done this because my son had made a few mistakes and was not happy with the piece so I had thought that instead of letting the Disklavier write it to the disk I would eject it before this happened.
> As you can imaging my horror when I reinserted the disk and it told me that the disk was 'unformatted'. Yamaha said that it is most likely that the older pieces recorded over the past four years are still on the disk but the Disklavier is unable to find them because it did not have time to write a menu due to my stupid action!
> So I now have a disk which I am desperate to get the recordings off and I can barely send an email. Can anyone help please?
> Best wishes,
> Ian
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