Disklavier

Hi Folks, I've recently joined this group and have read some of the 
past correspondence between members and am impressed with the 
knowledge people have.
I have an Upright MX95 (serial # 4959049) which has a separate not 
built in Yamaha DKC5R Control Unit. The unit uses 720K 2DDformatted 
disks in ESEQ and has a MIDI function. Thanks to you guys I've been 
able to download a few MIDI tunes and play them through my PC 
running Windows XP Professional. I've also downloaded the 
dkvutilities program containing ESEQ Explorer, MID2ESEQ and 
ESEQ2MID,Veloset & dkvcopyI and need help with this.

I'm trying to Copy downloaded FIL files & MIDI files on to  floppys 
I can play through the Control Unit but am not getting anywhere 
despite following the readme instructions that came with the 
dkvutilities program. I'm not getting to first base.  I can't seem 
to format 720K discs on my PC. The Format option in Windows is set 
to 1.4 and does not allow any other format option to be made; Can't 
format through Windows DOS. I've tried changing the BIOS (during 
boot up) to the 720K format option but the PC looks for a 5.25 
drive. I've tried the different options in the floppy bios setup to 
no avail. If I format a disc in the Control unit the PC cant read 
it – says unformatted disc. At the risk of boring people, I would 
appreciate someone guiding me through the steps I should take on the 
PC to achieve the format process that will allow me to convert MIDI 
and TIF files to the ESEQ the Disklavier will read.  
Stafford Whitwell

From: dwnunderoz

 I can't seem
to format 720K discs on my PC. The Format option in Windows is set
to 1.4 and does not allow any other format option to be made; Can't
format through Windows DOS.

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Hi,

This is a subject that has come up here several times with differing solutions, 
some that would work and others would not. Windows XP supports most 'older' 
items that the old versions of Windows had, but apparently, this was one item 
that was removed; the capability of formatting  3.5" 720K diskettes...

Here is one solution that you can try that was posted a couple of years ago by 
Chine-Chine Wang:

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Please allow me to add on to this excellent method to format 720k disks
- the easiest way to do this in Windows XP is this:
   1. Click on "Start"
   2. Select "Run"
   3. Type in "cmd /k format a: /t:80 /n:9" (without the quotes) and hit Enter.
   4. Follow the prompt (insert DD floppy and hit Enter).

The beauty is that the next time you need to do this, the long command
will be remembered in the previous commands of the "Run" box (as
pull-down selection), as long as you're logged in on the same computer
as the same user.

You can use other alternatives such as a batch file or a shortcut to
execute this (assuming that, like me, you sometimes have trouble
remembering seldom used DOS command switches), but the run box takes the
least effort.

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Danny

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