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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. You
can send your 2480 (or just your 2480's hard drive) to Roland and they
can do data recovery for you (for a fee)... i.e. doing it yourself is
not your ONLY option. 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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