MPC 2000 Disk Read Error/Not OS Related

Wussup yall, first post here....I use to lurk here a couple years ago because I use to have an MPC 2000XL but I ended up selling it about 2 years ago because of financial/family issues. SO, now, I've ended up getting a great deal on a classic 2000, I got it for 300 dollars...so I decided to get it. Now here is my problem. I've had it for about a week now and the OS loads perfect, I had a couple drum breaks and drum samples on my comp and I threw them all on floppys and they load up fine on the MPC... I just tried to chop a sample up on Cool Edit/Adobe Audition and I saved it as a 44.1Khz 16-Bit Wav File...I saved it on a floppy and then I go to load it on the MPC and it sees it but when I hit "DO IT" to try to load/play it it says "Disk Read Error"...now keep in mind I haven't used floppys in a LONG time so I might be doing something wrong with the floppy, I am using the same kind of floppy that i used for the drum breaks. Any body have any suggestions?

By the way I did try to search before posting, but all I could come up with was people with problems with their OS disk...Thanks in advance.

anybody please?

It's one of 2 things either that Floppy is old or You Floppy Drive might be bad or dirty you should try to clean it with one of those floppy drive cleaning kits they work pretty good.

to be honest with you I think it's the way I'm saving my samples from the computer to the floppy. i just bought a 10 pack of Floppys from staples and I used 6 of them already and all the sounds loaded up fine. but keep in mind that those sounds were from a drum kit that i've already had... Now the problem started when I chopped my sample on cool edit/adobe audition.... I saved it as a Mono 44.1 khz 16-Bit Wav. file...is that right? is that the way i am supposed to save it? like I said the floppys are new and the drive on the mpc works perfectly...

Yeah they should be 16 bit 44.1khz and shouldn't be in a folder or anything. Maybe try Stereo versions and see if that works but I don't think it matters Mono should work too.

Oh and make sure your file names are 8 Characters or less I think that might be your problem.

yeah I'm going to give that a try... I'm sure it's something simple...when I load the floppy the mpc recognizes it and it sees the file but when I try to load the file it says "Disk Read Error" but I'm going to try to rename it to less than 8 characters. I hope that works.

And make sure when you rename the files that you don't leave of .wav