Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By Lampdog Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:50 am
hey lampdog...
do u partition on the PC or on the MPC?
pc

i'm assuming that if u're gonna be going from PC to MPC back and forth, u should do all formatting and partitioning from the PC before going into the MPC right??
partition and format on the pc

also....u said format to fat OF fat16?

r these 2 completely different types?
if so...which one is better?
u just right click the volume on windows explorer and hit "format" right?
or is there a different/better way to do this.
use them if you see them, fat/fat16
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By Jaymobeatz Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:47 pm
Lampdog wrote:Your problem is you formatted on the MPC. Fat on mpc and fat on computer are a little different. You messed up your mpc format when you placed the card on the computer.

Format the card on pc, use fat/fat16, use 8 or less characters in filename. You will be fine after that.... NOW, that card is transferrable. This is the same thing I and so many others have been preaching for years now, pc format, not mpc format...


MPC formatted media = non transferable card, you will end up the way you just did.....

Me, I'm on 2kxl os 1.14, I use 2 x 512mb cf's, have not used the mpc to format in years..... both my cards are pc formatted fat/fat16. I use the above rules I stated and I'm fine, not had any problems in years..
does this apply 2 zip disks 2
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By Lampdog Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:20 pm
Before my cf I had Iomega zip250mb, I did the SAME thing. I was using os 1.14. Never had problems....
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By eastcoast121 Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:36 pm
If your card is formatted on the MPC and then you go to format it on the PC wont it erase all your sounds and projects?
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By Lampdog Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:01 pm
No, and why don't you guys experiment and find this all out on your own?

These are things you guys can do on your own and won't cost you any money.

By DJ Six Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:37 pm
Just to add my 2 cents - whenever I am about to use MPC Editor, I format USING THE PROGRAM ITSELF EVERY TIME.

So, the flow would be putting a ZIP 100 into my USB ZIP drive on the PC, opening MPC Editor, using it to format the ZIP, then choosing my sounds and assigning to the pads, then naming/exporting the PGM and the sounds in 2000 format to the ZIP.

I have yet to have any issues at all doing it this way. Prior to this, I would just format the ZIP on the MPC, then bring it over to the PC and proceed as above from there.

Dudes is scurred to try things. :roll:
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By Lampdog Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:47 pm
DJ Six wrote:Dudes is scurred to try things. :roll:

Yeah, seem like most people are.

Some do try and stuff just doesn't work for them.

I have in several threads explained it exactly how I've done at several peoples cribs and have never had a problem either...