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by Gary E. Andrews - 04/15/24 07:08 PM
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Back in the days of sequencers, I had probably a 30 songs sequenced and I recently bought a floppy usb to use on computer in attemp to accesd those files.
Gives you the old "your disk must be formatted" which would then render it blank, but it wont open either, so is this stuff gone for good?
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Was it a hardware sequencer that you were using? If so, it may use a format that your PC doesn't recognise so the PC thinks the disc is blank. If you still have the sequencer, I would see if it can write standard MIDI files on a PC formatted disk - certainly some of them could accept disks formatted on a PC although they couldn't format a disk for a PC themselves.
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no lol, if I had the sequencer still I wouldnt have to worry
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Not sure but you may have to find someone with an older computer to open the files. You may also go to a computer repair service to see if they can help you.
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I think you may find James had the answer.
If you used and saved the files using hardware other than a PC, then the file and disk format would be foreign to the PC format.
Still, don't give up if the files are important. A repair shop may be able to somehow recover the files for you.
If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop
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yeah, the sequencer I had went many moons ago. I know that many of those files were saved as standard midi files, which I assumed were all compatible.
maybe geek squad could salvage them for me, I just dont feel like paying them 125 bucks just to be told they cant do anything.
and then another hundred if If I want them to save them.
For material that would probably be nothing more than reference.
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I believe there are a couple free small usb bootable Linux programs that can recover those. You pull them out with the Linux program and put them in a Windows folder. Am I gathering right that the files are on the USB right now and not the puter?
Last edited by L. James Tanner; 12/03/13 03:07 AM.
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I also found this. I'm not sure if it's what you need or if it even works. You may probably do this any way, but scan for virus if you download it. I don't know this site well. http://www.icare-recovery.com/howto/usb-flash-drive-not-formatted.htmlI installed it, but it will only let you recover 10 files unless you buy it. But I found other totally free programs after doing a search for "File Recovery Programs Free" in Google
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I've been trying to work around this same problem for a while now. My experience is that if you get a "disk needs to be formatted" error, your disk has problems, usually in spinning at the proper speed. Often trying to read a disk that won't spin up immediately or is slow in spinning up will damage the floppy drive so it won't properly read any disk after that, even known good ones.
Try formatting a disk. If it won't format any disk, the motor portion of the drive is probably damaged.
I installed a USB thumb drive to floppy drive converter in place of the floppy drive in my Korg Triton Rack. They are made by Gotek and are hard to find in the US, though you can order them from China for much less than $100. But I'm still trying to recover some data from my old floppies for my Triton to put them on my thumb drive.
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Just rememberd. To open the info on the disc's you will need the program in your computer that created the files. Most of the files I have (Still) on floppy discs were created in MicroWorks or Wordpad. They keep changing things with computer's, dang it!
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Wordpad is still in my Windows 7 computer. I don't know if it is still in Windows 8.
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It would really help if you could tell us what sort of sequencer these files were created on. There are various useful utilities around that will read old sequencer discs but they're machine specific so we need to know which sequencer you had.
James.
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