Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
By D-load Sat May 23, 2009 12:03 pm
hello, I've recently purchased an used mpc2000, and I've been working on it, using only the 3 original floppy drives that came along with it. I made a sequence with the funky set, and saved it into the funky set floppy, wich turned out ok, and I had no problems with that. but than I made a sequence with the hip hop set and saved it into a floppy I had(previously formated in my mpc), the next day I went and worked on it, and saved it again, but the following day, when I went to load it , my mpc said there was a disk error, and couldn't load it.
I moved on and made another sequence on my standart set and saved it in the standart set fllopy, and the next day I got another disk error.
I tried making another diferent sequence with the standart set again and saved it to the mpc OS floppy, and the next day DISC ERROR. Than I loaded my standart set again and 4 of the sounds wouldn't load, this same happend with my hip hop set.
do you have any suggestions or ideas? thanks
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By wudsiba Sat May 23, 2009 5:02 pm
Could it be that those disks, snd even the 2000 itself, haven't been used in a long time? If so, it's always good to have a lot of blank disks on hand and back up everything at least twice. Those disks really do, as it turns out, have a shelf life. Before doing anything, I would get a set of ten disks and make at least three of them backups of the OS. Then move on from there. Good luck my man.
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By mikemix Sat May 23, 2009 7:53 pm
RIP

MPC is not, the floppy-drive is dying
Does OS 1.72 load well from floppy?

Beside, to kill a MPC2000 well you have to use a big machinegun.
By D-load Sat May 23, 2009 8:41 pm
THANKS , I'LL BE GETTING SOME NEW FLOPPYS FROM KNOW ON, AND I'LL ASLO SLEEP BETTER KNOWING MY MPC IS NOT DYING
By D-load Sun May 24, 2009 10:52 am
mikemix wrote:BUT:
Does OS 1.72 load well from floppy?


Yeah, the one that didn't load was the original 1.0 OS floppy.
But I think I already have the problem solved, from now on I'll be using an external zip drive to save and load programs.