Watch out for MPC editor, faulty design warning!!!!

Read my email i just send to MIDICASE.....

Hello,

I purchased an MPC 60 last month and i found out about your program thru the MPC forum. I installed MPC editor and followed your instructions from the PDF file that comes with it. So in this PDF you tell me to format a disk, i followed the correct procedure and ended up with MPC editor formating my harddrive. I see this as an major flaw in your design since its a bit weird that i exactly followed the instructions and this happens! As you probally understand im not happy with this.... escpescialy since it formatted my harddrive in this way that i lost half of it! I would like to know what ur point of view is in this matter, i can tell you that at this point im not gonna use this program and i will actively tell others not to. Im also making a topic about this on the MPC forums to warn other users for your faulty design. Im hoping you can understand my situation since i had to pay a lot of money to get half my harddrive recoverd. I am totally not happy and waiting for your response.

Regards,

My Name.

I just opened up MPCEditor in my XP laptop and went to the XP disc formatter and you're right, even though it says fixed hard discs will not be shown in the list, the only disk it did show was the laptops's fixed hard drive. Oops. Though it seems odd that it is able to format it - that would involve formatting the disk that is running the formatting program.

Yea thats what mind boggels me aswel.... Glad you checked it out thou, now i know im not the only one

It seems weird that it needs to format anything in the first place, doesn't it?!

(I'm not aware of this program or its functionality)

For the MPC 60 without scsi you can only work with floppy's, these floppy's must be in MPC 60 format else it wont take them, there is a functionalty in MPC editor that let you do it on your pc..... to bad it seems to screw over your pc

The application actually filters the C: drive and it displays the name of the drive as a secondary precaution. If you are trying for format a Iomega Zip and the Box says something like "Seagate HD", then you should stop. It is possible that muti-volume drives may show since these may have D or E letter assignments.

I responded to the original poster early this morning and offered to repair the drive at no charge. It is pretty easy to do: boot off XP disk, enter recovery console and type FIXMBR.

After 8 years, I am aware of only two other cases where someone formatted the wrong drive. Even for a such a low "failure rate", all the data was fully recovered each time.

mpc3000 wrote:The application actually filters the C: drive and it displays the name of the drive as a secondary precaution. If you are trying for format a Iomega Zip and the Box says something like "Seagate HD", then you should stop. It is possible that muti-volume drives may show since these may have D or E letter assignments.

I responded to the original poster early this morning and offered to repair the drive at no charge. It is pretty easy to do: boot off XP disk, enter recovery console and type FIXMBR.

After 8 years, I am aware of only two other cases where someone formatted the wrong drive. Even for a such a low "failure rate", all the data was fully recovered each time.

And thanks again for that swift reply!