Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By featherboy Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:44 pm
Hang on.......when you switch on the MPC, how are you loading up the OS if your floppies aren't working???

When you load a floppy are any of the contents being listed? If not you might have erased your floppies, however if you have lots of them it is unlikely you would be unlucky enough to destroy all of them. As you say you cannot save stuff either your floppy drive might just need a clean.

Have you tried formatting a new disk, or re-formatting an old one that you can sacrifice? Does it let you do this? If it does, can you save & then re-load to this disk?
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By BRAVO Sat Jun 26, 2004 1:42 am
featherboy wrote:Hang on.......when you switch on the MPC, how are you loading up the OS if your floppies aren't working???


He said he has an XL
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By cyrus Sat Jun 26, 2004 4:52 am
incurablebeatlust wrote:watch out for head phones, speakers, mics, transducers, whatever. they will def. corrupt those disks.
GEt A ZIP DRIVE! ahem, sorry to shout but it makes a big difference in the whole mpc process.
have fun. peace


always back your shit up too.
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By featherboy Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:11 pm
BRAVO....... does the xl boot up from some internal ROM then? I didn't know that. I've only used a 2000. I've never thought the method of booting up from an external/removable source was such a good idea as no other hardware equipment I've used, including other Akai samplers, does that.
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By BRAVO Sat Jun 26, 2004 2:03 pm
[quote="featherboy"]BRAVO....... does the xl boot up from some internal ROM then?quote]

Yep....Turn it on, and your good to go