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gledhillda · 6th May 2010

HI im trying to help my friend with her sy85. I don’t know about these as never owned one. She's not used it for a year or two and now we cant get any of the disks of her arragements (not in midi format) to load (we tried about 6 of them, they have all been stored carefully in cool/dry conditions and they seem to be ok in that cant see any damage and they rotate manually ie not seized up). She's trying to load them in the usual way insert the disk, push the bottom right hand side combination of the mode button keys - marked disk. The screen comes up right away with *new* (rather then the file names she expected) and there seems to be little noise from the disk. Pushing the lhs button marked (load) didn’t do anything.
I Would assume from this that it’s the drive not working and that its unlikely that the disks were all bad.
Ive heard that they should be readable on a pc as they are stored in 720 k msdos format, is this right? When we tried several on 2 different pcs they reported that they were unformated. It seems (I hope!) unlikely that all the disks could be damaged or do we need to make some changes on the pc make them readable?
Has anyone had similar problems? Shes got lots of good stuff stored on the disks so we keen to at least get it onto the pc so can remake the disks if needs be. does anyone know of a data recovery program for these disks?.
Thanks dave.

6th May 2010	#15
gledhillda Gear interested Joined: May 2010 Posts: 1	trying to get disks to be read on sy85 HI im trying to help my friend with her sy85. I don’t know about these as never owned one. She's not used it for a year or two and now we cant get any of the disks of her arragements (not in midi format) to load (we tried about 6 of them, they have all been stored carefully in cool/dry conditions and they seem to be ok in that cant see any damage and they rotate manually ie not seized up). She's trying to load them in the usual way insert the disk, push the bottom right hand side combination of the mode button keys - marked disk. The screen comes up right away with new (rather then the file names she expected) and there seems to be little noise from the disk. Pushing the lhs button marked (load) didn’t do anything. I Would assume from this that it’s the drive not working and that its unlikely that the disks were all bad. Ive heard that they should be readable on a pc as they are stored in 720 k msdos format, is this right? When we tried several on 2 different pcs they reported that they were unformated. It seems (I hope!) unlikely that all the disks could be damaged or do we need to make some changes on the pc make them readable? Has anyone had similar problems? Shes got lots of good stuff stored on the disks so we keen to at least get it onto the pc so can remake the disks if needs be. does anyone know of a data recovery program for these disks?. Thanks dave.