Exchange tips and tricks for the Akai MPC4000
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By ikke Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:07 pm
Is there another way to defragment my HD in the MPC without having to swop it to a win98 machine?
I just re arranged every map with sample ceedees via Aksys cause it was getting a mess. But now I need to defragment the HD urgent

By Knoxximus Sun May 01, 2005 6:29 pm
Geez.....good thing I gotta Windows 98 comp laying in that corner over there.....never thought I'd have a use for THAT thing again.....

By misterv Sun May 01, 2005 6:34 pm
can t win XP do that ?
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By ikke Sun May 01, 2005 7:18 pm
yes but it writes some stuff to the HD, win98 is the same as the mpc4000. (or somezthing like that, I dunno how it works). but I know I needed a win98 machine before when i just got the mpc4k to format the hd. I dont risk it to do it in XP, defragmenting in xp might work but it isnt good for the hd. XP uses another architecture (?) or something :?
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By feline1 Sun May 01, 2005 7:56 pm
ikke,
you're talking out your @ss :lol:

The MPC4000 hard drive needs to be formatted as Microsoft's "FAT32" format,
which WinXP can handle perfectly well.
And defragmenting a drive is not the same as 'formatting' it anyways!
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By ikke Sun May 01, 2005 11:47 pm
cmon, dude help us out here!

"ikke,
you're talking out your @ss "

yeh i know :lol thats what i was saying ;)
i know the difference between formatting and defragmenting and thats bout it hehe

but than tell me why is it that i cant format a hd to fat32 with xp so that the mpc reads it? cause ive tried it and only 98 was suitable :?
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By ikke Wed May 04, 2005 10:48 pm
It looks like the HD in the MPC4k doesnt need to be defragmented. I put it into my XP machine and XP tells me that its a healthy drive and it doesnt need to be fragmented..
Does the MPC work in a different way then Windows? I mean without those blocks :?
Cause I did some heavy rearranging of folders.. like 10 giga or something so normally my drive would need to be defragmented
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hd

By strongarmmusic Thu May 05, 2005 12:04 am
seem ur talking file system diffs fat32 and ntfs (98 win32) (2000 both)(xp-ntfs)
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By feline1 Thu May 05, 2005 5:20 pm
I thought WinXP can format as FAT32,
but if it's doing NTFS, then no, that won't work on the MPC4000.

If there's more than one "flavour" of FAT32, then that's Microsoft's stupid fault!