#1896825 - 04/12/24 03:31 PM
Won't BOOT
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C Jo Go
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Luckily I have other drives --- one that did boot up
BUT next week's client is coming in to finish up with a vocalists >> any tricks to get our main drive to boot up??
It was formatted in 2020 and has multitudes of songs on every partition
Edited by C Jo Go (04/12/24 03:32 PM)
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#1896831 - 04/12/24 04:12 PM
Re: Won't BOOT
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C Jo Go
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Did apply CH EDIT /TRK STATUS .... channel 4 hold down ~~ on boot up
Edited by C Jo Go (04/12/24 05:32 PM)
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#1896882 - 04/13/24 12:26 AM
Re: Won't BOOT
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C Jo Go
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How many degrees does one need to decipher this
; ??/ 
VS 2480 Hard Drive Recovery <
PLEASE NOTE: This procedure only works if the cause of the HD problem is due to Data Corruption on the Songlist.vr1 file... i.e. the file on a given partition that tells the 2480 where the "projects" are located.
Use of this procedure is AT YOUR OWN RISK.
VS2480 Data Recovery
Recovering Lost Songs or Directory from a Partition on the VS2480 Hard Drive
First, you must remove the hard drive from the VS2480. Look closely at the pin configuration for your particular hard drive and note what the setting is for “Master” and for “Slave”.
You will need to reset the “pin configuration” and hook up the VS2480 hard drive into your computer as a “Slave drive”. Once you are hooked up and your computer is turned on, make a “file folder” on the “desktop” and call it “VSData” (just to keep things easy and clean). This is where you will “copy” VS2480 “SONG” information “to”.
On the “desktop” of your computer, double click on the “My Computer” icon. The window will open up and show you all of the drives you have connected to your system. For example;
3 1/2 Floppy (A:)
Local Disk (C:)
Compact Disk (D:)
…etc…
The VS2480 hard drive will show up as “letter! ” (IDE) drives, other than those listed above. (For example: partition “0” from the VS hard drive may be IDE (E:), partition “1” may be IDE (F:), and so on…). They may not be organized exactly one after another but the progressive lettering is in order, so pay close attention to what drive letters belong to the VS2480 hard drive.
IMPORTANT: Some Windows versions can only see a maximum of FOUR "primary DOS partitions" on any given hard drive. Unfortunately, the Roland 2480 formats ALL of it's partitions as "primary DOS partitions". If the offending partition is #0 thru #3... you are fine. If the offending partition is #4 or higher, you will need to use a 3rd party software program called the Roland Partition Shuffler.
(PLEASE NOTE: If you are to the point where you need to actually USE the Partition Shuffler Program... you should really think about having Roland do this data recovery for you.)
When you open one of the VS2480 hard drive (IDE) partitions (that would not open on the VS2480), you will see a list of “file folders” like the following;
SONG0001.VR1
SONG0002.VR1
SONG0003.VR1
SONG0004.VR1
…and so on…
Following the SONG.VR1 file folders, there will be (14) more files in the list. These (14) files are what tell the VS2480 what to do with the information on that part! ition. One or more of these (14) files will be corrupted, and preventing the VS2480 from booting-up that partition, or preventing a specific SONG from loading.
You will need to “copy” each SONG.VR1 file folder (and its contents), one at a time, over to the “VSData” file folder that you created on the desktop. But DO NOT copy the (14) files from the list following the SONG.VR1 file folders!
For example: Once you have copied the SONG0001.VR1 file folder (with its contents), over to the “VSData” file folder, you can check the contents by opening the newly copied SONG0001.VR1 file in the “VSData” folder. You will see (21) files that look like the following;
AMIXPCTL.VR1
AUTOMIX0.VR1
AUTOMIX1.VR1
AUTOMIX2.VR1
AUTOMIX3.VR1
AUTOMIX4.VR1
AUTOMIX5.VR1
AUTOMIX6.VR1
AUTOMIX7.VR1
AUTOMIX8.VR1
AUTOMIX9.VR1
COMMENT.VR1
EFFECT.VR1
EVENTCFG.VR1
EVENTLST.VR1
MARKER.VR1
MIXER.VR1 SCENE.VR1
SONG.VR1
SYNCTRK.VR1
SYSTEM.VR1
After the first (21) files (that will always be in every song), there will be a number of TK.VR1 files. These “TK.VR1” files are the actual recorded audio track information. The number of TK.VR1 files that appear in each “SONG” will vary with the number of audio tracks recorded to each particular song.
TK000004.VR1
TK000242.VR1
TK000431.VR1
TK000492.VR1
…and so on…
Once all of the songs from the “corrupted” partition have been copied over to the “VSData” file folder on the desktop, you should make sure that the number of songs in the “VSData” file folder are equal to the number of songs from the VS2480 hard drive (IDE) partition. Take note of how many “SONG’s” you have.
Only “AFTER” you are completely sure you have copied all of the songs (and their contents), over to the “VSData” file folder, you can “delete” ALL of the SONG’s and the (14) files. B! ut ONLY from “that” particular VS2480 hard drive (IDE) partition! DO NOT delete anything from any other VS2480 hard drive (IDE) partitions!
Now remove the VS2480 hard drive from the computer and reset the “pin configuration” back to the “Master” setting for that particular hard drive. Re-install the VS2480 hard drive back into the VS2480 and turn on the power.
The VS2480 should load up a “song” from one of the partitions (it doesn’t matter which one). Go to the “Project List” and select the IDE partition where the corrupted files “used to be”. Select “List” and a “New” song will open up and be added into that partition. This song should be “InitProj.000”. Continue adding “New” songs to that partition (and don’t forget to SAVE each one as you go), until you have reached the number of songs you previously took note of earlier.
Once you have the correct number of “empty” songs, shut down the VS2480, and remove the VS2480 hard drive again. Chang! e the “pin configuration” over to “slave”, then install the hard drive back into the computer. Turn the computer on and open the “My Computer” icon. Choose the previously corrupted (IDE) partition from the VS2480 hard drive. This partition will now have a list of “SONG” file folders equal to the number of “SONG” file folders saved to the “VSData” file folder on the desktop. AND the (14) files in the list will now be “corrected” for the VS2480 to read. These (14) files must not be touched from here on out!
Open each SONG (one by one), in order, on the VS2480 hard drive (IDE) partition. First “erase” the (21) files within the song. Then “copy” over the contents only (21 files and the TK.VR1 files), from the corresponding SONG in the “VSData” file folder, into the VS2480 hard drive (IDE) partition SONG file folder.
You are done when all of the files within each SONG from the “VSData” file folder on the “desktop”, are copied into each SONG within the VS24! 80 hard drive (IDE) partition. The VS2480 hard drive can now be removed from the computer, the “pin configuration” reset to “master”, and finally reinstalled into the VS2480.
Turn on the VS2480 and wait for a “song” to load. Go to the “Project List” and choose the (IDE) partition (that you are working on), by selecting “List”. All of the songs in that partition should now appear. Open a song (one by one), in that partition, and after it has fully loaded, you must “save” it. Then move to the next song in the list, load it, then save it, and so on, until you have done this to every song in that partition. Each time you “save” the song, the correct “name” and file “size” will be displayed as it was before the directory was corrupted (preventing you from accessing the partition or songs in the first place).
All of the songs (or partition), should now be back the way they were. Unfortunately, there is no other way to reorganize or rebuild the directory o! f a VS2480 hard drive (IDE) partition once it is corrupted. You can fool the SONG file by copying data into it, but the VS2480 has to “write” the directory information from within the machine itself.
A Shortcut…
If, for example, partition “1” (or any of its songs), are corrupted and there is no data saved on partition “2”…
Then (while the VS2480 hard drive is still in the VS2480), open up partition “2” and create a number of “new” songs. If you are unsure of how many songs are to be recovered from partition “1”, then always make more “new” songs than you would possibly need. You can erase the un-needed songs later on.
Follow the instructions above; by installing the VS2480 hard drive into the computer. Copy the SONGs from the VS2480 hard drive (IDE) partition “1” over to the “VSData” file folder on the desktop. Then copy the “VSData” SONG files back into the “newly” created VS2480 hard drive (IDE) partition “2” SONG files.
This could save one complete step and perhaps a little time, BUT only when you are able to access the VS2480 hard drive to begin with. If you cannot access the VS2480 hard drive at all, you must follow the multiple steps…
Good luck!
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