hI THERE ALL.I AM IN DESPERATE NEED OF INFORMATION CONCERNING THE XP80 DISK DRIVE.I LIVE IN CYPRUS,AND OUR IMCOMPETANT(AS ALWAYS)ROLAND REP HAS ALREADY SHUT SHOP FOR XMAS.MY DISK DRIVE HAS GIVEN UP ON ME,IS IT POSSIBLE TO REPLACE IT WITH A STANDARD FLOPPY DRIVE OR DOES IT HAVE TO BE A ROLAND SUPPLIED ITEM?
ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED
THANKS

Hi,
You know...I'm having the same problem with mine. My disk drive likes to stop reading my disks and pretends that there is nothing on them when in fact I know there are forty songs on there! I don't know what kind of problem you're having...but have you tried a disk drive cleaner? If your problem is similar to mine, have you tried sticking the disk into your computer and copying the songs onto a new disk? That works for me...but it's a pain. I also was asking around about replacing the disk drive. I didn't get an answer. I called Roland and a replacement one is over $100.00. Rip off...it probably is just a regular disk drive. Sorry I couldn't help you more.

-Tracey

Tracey, thanks for your reply.Well i did try a cleaner, that didnt work, then i took out the disk drive.It seems to have seized because it wore out the disk that was in it at the time. At the moment ive put in a standard floppy drive ,it can read just fine but it cannot format the disks,which means that roland use a priority format.
Im still waiting for the roland rep to get back to me .

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So you have a regular disk drive in there but it won't format? Is it possible to put one of your XP disks in there that you've already been working with, and just copy those songs onto a new disk and then have the xp read the new disk? You could probably get out of having to buy a ROland disk drive that way. Like I said, I would put my XP disk into the computer, then thru windows explorer I copied the disk onto a new one and then I didn't have to format a new disk. Let me know what happens with that. Also, with my disk drive, I complained to the guy I bought it from and he's going to replace the disk drive free of charge. I don't know if this option is available to you or not. Let me know what happens with that.

-Tracey