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Old 24th July 2012   #1
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Help plz! MPC 60 is not loading programs.

Hi all,

If anyone could offer any possible solutions I would be most appreciative.

While away on vacation I left a floppy disc in my MPC 60 (turned off of course). Upon my return I turned the MPC on with the disc still inserted.

Per usual, the disc automatically began to load once I turned it on - loading the program. Soon I got this error:

This file is internally corrupted and can't be loaded: it's internal type ID doesn't match its 3-letter name extension.

I ejected that disc and loaded another - just to see if the program would load. It did. I banged out a new sequence with that program. I then saved the sequence.

Today, I went back to load the second disc and I got the exact same error. I then went and loaded the first corrupted disc and it's program will not load either and displays the same message.

I then loaded another disc. It's program loaded fine. I banged out a simple sequence and saved just to test if the machine was corrupting disc. I then shut off the MPC and restarted it. This time the disc loaded all programs fine.

What is interesting is that the disc that give the corrupted messages will load sequences and will also load the individual samples?!?!?

If anyone can help figure out what is going on it would be very very very appreciated and I will send you some great gear karma in the cosmos. The song I originally was trying to load was basically done and just needed a proper mixdown/ recording. I'd be terribly upset to loose it.

Admin: I am thinking of also posting this in the hip hop section in hopes some people there may have insights. If this is against policy please let me know.

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Old 24th July 2012   #2
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Floppies typically have a higher failure rate. Also are you on the latest os on the mpc 60?
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Yeah, I am on 3.10. What is interesting/ bizarre is that the .seq and .snd files load fine - only the .pgm files seem to be corrupted. I suppose if I really must, I could try to rematch the program pad assignments to the right .snd sounds. But what a pain in the ass.

I have been putting off getting the hxc reader for my MPC and two Emax but maybe it's time...

Any ideas of work arounds that could help salvage this song would be great.
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Can you load up the seq and sound files do a little more re-programming and save it to another new floppy? Sorry, if that is too obvious. Good luck.
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Old 31st July 2012   #5
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A long time 60 user. You need to clean the floppy drive, and possibly get better DD Disks. I tended to have those probalems with HD floppies or a dirty hard drive.

You need a floppy cleaning disk, it's a floppy with a cloth brush instead of a disk, you put some drops of cleaning solution, pop it in the drive and keep trying to load and save to it and it will clean the heads.

You should go to the MPC forums, the MPC 60 section to get good info from the archives and be able to ask more current users.
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