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[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 01:17  PM, B wrote:

> I just found out that MSM ("My Sweet Man," aka "spousal unit" aka  
> "Forrest") has a non-working disk drive in his Yamaha SY 99  
> synthesizer that has a most wonderful but not backed-up musical work  
> on it. The disk drive "makes a racket" upon access attempt. (I not  
> only don't know the particular machine, I'm as clueless with synth's  
> as I am with quantum physics. Both of us are *painfully* aware that he  
> should have immediately backed the work onto real and multiple storage  
> options, as it was a really nice piece. Tsk.)
>
> He says the only answer he knows is Bull City Sound in Durham, but  
> cash="tight".... Do any of you know any options?

He should of course talk to the closest authorized Yamaha repair  
center, but I seriously doubt they could retrieve the data. Most likely  
they'd just replace the drive and that is it. *If* the drive uses a  
known format you could conceivably send it to a data retrieval place,  
but that's also likely to be expensive.


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