mpc 60 will not load drums..help

hey I'm new to this site and i need a lil help... I'm having a problem loading drums onto my mpc 60.... when i put a floppy in there it recognizes the sounds on it but every time i hit the load button it says....this file is internally corrupted and can't be loaded..its internal type id doesn't match its 3letter extension...can some one plz help me with this....it there something wrong with my floppy drive?....plz help..thanks

Try a new formated floppy disk with new sound files. If that doesnt work, its probably your floppy drive.

thanks for ur help...

I have the same problem with some files, i dont think its the floppy drive myself... i think there is something i am doing wrong with naming them, use a erase to much or something.

Hope some1 can show some light on this.

Hi all,

Bumping this old thread in desperation. If anyone could offer any possible solutions I would be most appreciative.

While away on vacation I left a floppy disc in my MPC 60 (turned off of course). Upon my return I turned the MPC on with the disc still inserted.

Per usual, the disc automatically began to load once I turned it on - loading the program. Soon I got this error:

This file is internally corrupted and can't be loaded: it's internal type ID doesn't match its 3-letter name extension.

I ejected that disc and loaded another - just to see if the program would load. It did. I banged out a new sequence with that program. I then saved the sequence.

Today, I went back to load the second disc and I got the exact same error. I then went and loaded the first corrupted disc and it's program will not load either and displays the same message.

I then loaded another disc. It's program loaded fine. I banged out a simple sequence and saved just to test if the machine was corrupting disc. I then shut off the MPC and restarted it. This time the disc loaded all programs fine.

What is interesting is that the disc that give the corrupted messages will load sequences and will also load the individual samples?!?!?

If anyone can help figure out what is going on it would be very very very appreciated and I will send you some great gear karma in the cosmos. The song I originally was trying to load was basically done and just needed a proper mixdown/ recording. I'd be terribly upset to loose it.

Reconnect floppy cables inside machine.
Clean floppy drives head, with special cleaning disc.
Eventually, if it don't help, get your self floppy emulator and forget this issue.

Thanks for the response. I was thinking trying to clean it may be the next step - although I think I need to bite the bullet and start research on emulators.

I fully understand how the emulator works - but what I don't get is how you transfer all your data on existing floppies to the emulator? Is it as simple as buying a floppie USB drive then dragging and dropping them on to the SD card?

I am sure some digging on the interwebs will give me the answer. But if any one wants to shine a light I would def appreciate it

Long time ago in Windows 98 I transferred all files from floppies to PC,
later which I copied to USB stick.
These days I create & edit sounds in computer and convert via
Awave Studio from wav to akai snd format on USB stick.

always good to make 2 copies.

also...

i got less loading errors when i ALWAYS saved to a freshly formatted disk...

no loading a sample from a disk, editing it, and resaving to the same disk, unless you reformatted that same disk before resaving the sound file...

a bit tedious, but i always came up with way less loading errors when i took the time to do this EVERY time....


basicly when saving anything, format the disk first. it may help on your "load error percentages"...

Thanks Fobedafied. That is good advice in the meantime.