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Re: [disklavier] Mark IV hard drive challenge

2014-09-06 by Bill Brandom

Joel,

I can send you links for the 3 ISO files to do a RESCUE. Each of these need to imaged to a CD. You will also need an update floppy. You probably have one of the floppies from a prior update. You will need instructions on how to perform a RESCUE, which I can supply.

If you would like them, let me know.

Bill

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On Sep 6, 2014, at 1:52 PM, "orionplt@yahoo.com [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

So our hard drive seems to be dying.  The last network update created all kinds of havoc.  It was play great until I updated it after which it couldn't read any of the music files and would routinely kick the PRC-100 offline.  I am guessing that the drive was on the edge and the heavy writes required by the update did it in.  



I have pulled the drive out of the Disklavier and am running recovery software on it now.  It has found several bad sectors across a few of the partitions on the drive.  Of course I hadn't done a backup of the music we have on it (stupidity on my part for not treating like the computer that it is) and I don't believe we still have all the disks to reload it (retired Navy with 6 moves with the piano).  I am trying to figure out the partition structure on the drive.  There seems to be 9 partitions.  Does anyone know what the various partitions are for?  I know it is a Linux operating system so it has root and swap partitions.  I also figured that one (believe it is partition 9) has all the music files. 



I am hoping that the recovery software can read the content and move the bad sectors.  If not I have to figure out how to get the 3 recovery CDs and reload the system.  Any help with how to get the recovery/installation CDs and do a fresh system install would be appreciated.  The good part of this is that I have learn a lot more about our Disklavier and found this group.  I am also using the opportunity to replace our drive with a SSD and make a clone. 



Thanks,

Joel

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