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Lost Files

2012-03-07 by ianftyoung

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

Re: [disklavier] Lost Files

2012-03-07 by Mark Fontana

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

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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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Re : [disklavier] Lost Files

2012-03-07 by Kevin Goroway

Ian, You are in good hands with Mark.  And Yamaha is right.  The files are almost certainly still on the floppy.

Just one additional point.  You should probably make it a habit of backing up that floppy very often.

#1) It's important to you.
#2) It's a floppy!! (they have a very high rate of failure over time)

So, my suggestion is that each and every time you make a recording that you want to keep on the Disklavier.  You take the floppy to a pc and backup the new recording onto a harddrive in your computer.

Better safe than sorry!

-Kevin


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 From: Mark Fontana <mfontana@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Lost Files

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 ------------------------------------ To Post a message to the group, send it to: disklavier@... To Post a private message to Todd Muncy, the group's founder and moderator, send it to: disklavier-owner@... To reach our group's web site go to: http://Yahoogroups.com/group/disklavier THINKING OF LEAVING THE GROUP?

RE: Re : [disklavier] Lost Files

2012-03-07 by Ian Young

Dear Kevin,

Thank you very much for that suggestion. I will endeavor to find somebody with a PC which has a 3.5 drive. I have a Mac with USB and a CD drive.

Best wishes,

Ian

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From: kgoroway@...
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 03:56:29 -0800
Subject: Re : [disklavier] Lost Files

Ian, You are in good hands with Mark.  And Yamaha is right.  The files are almost certainly still on the floppy.

Just one additional point.  You should probably make it a habit of backing up that floppy very often.

#1) It's important to you.
#2) It's a floppy!! (they have a very high rate of failure over time)

So, my suggestion is that each and every time you make a recording that you want to keep on the Disklavier.  You take the floppy to a pc and backup the new recording onto a harddrive in your computer.

Better safe than
 sorry!

-Kevin

    From: Mark Fontana 
 To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 5:59 AM
 Subject: Re: [disklavier] Lost Files
  
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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