Unbelievable,

I'm sitting with the Audya on my lap, going through all the Ketron Legacy styles one by one using the "disk" function, when suddenly, without any warning, the Audya can no longer read the files on the Ajamsonic Hard Drive.

I did not bump it, I hardly moved it at all, but now, just as I enquire about a solid state Hard Drive, I loose mine... Windows can see the lost files, but cannot fix as there is not enough space on disk.

Thanks be to the wisdom God gave me, for I still have my original Ketron Hard Drive with all the latest Ketron stuff on it bar OS5.0. This afternoon I'll open her up and re-install the original Hard Drive.

If it would cost me too much to have my Ajamsonic stuff restored, I'll just forget about it and stick with the original Ketron stuff instead. I've already spent quite some money on my Audya. In fact, my friend from whom I bought mine 2nd hand, can now get a brand new Ajamsonic Audya with all the latest gadgets for far less than mine cost me thus far in total.

Hell, after all the countless hours I put in to get our Audya ready for our upcoming public performances & outreaches & now this...

I made regular backups of all our Ketron stuff on the previous Hard Drive plus I've got the Ketron restoration DVDs. I did not bother with the Ajamsonic stuff because of the abnormal copy protection that comes with it. I really hope AJ also has restoration DVDs available which I can simply download onto my orginal Hard Drive...

So TWD my friend, I might just be back in your hands and at your mercey... And I now want a solid state Hard Drive more than ever before!!!

Henni

Hennie,

Check your email for tests and solution(s) and reply when free.

Thanks,

AJ

Hi AJ,

Thank you for responding to my email query so promptly. I might just have to go for the SSD option, something I should have done long ago. a Normal HDD is just to fragile and the weakest link on the Audya, yet it is the very heart of it.

You know, God really shares His wisdom with us. Last night, for no apparent reason at all, I backed up all the registrations that I prepared for our next performances (I made no other backups to date since upgrading to Ajamsonic). I checked the file size this morning, 30MB. So it did save all my hard earned newly modelled styles with those. I spent countless hours on those.

If I did not do that, not even a new SSD would have saved me. Yes, it costs me more money, but all else will be back in place. Should I get a program that can fix my non working Hard drive, I'll now have three Hard Drives for my Audya. You cannot have more Hard Drrive failure protection than this. Plus I'll immediately start to back up those Ajamsonic files that I'm allowed to on a regular basis!

Keep well all my friends,

Henni

as asked on another topic, what's the advantage of SSD if Audya does not take advantage of its speed

MAYBE that's the advantage of having SSD, RELIABILITY ?

only time will tell...

Hallelujah!!!

My Audya is back online. I installed the original HD. It all took less than an half hour & it's a breeze.

Next I installed all new styles with user drums as contributed by many of you.

Now here's the thing: The registry function of the Audya is one POWERFUL tool. I did not yet load any of the many styles I've uploaded here. Yet out of nearly 500 registry entries, only one did not work properly as saved. I had to take the original SD "Streewise" style and modify it to the one supplied by AJ. Apart from this, EVERYTHING else works as saved. Only those styles without the appropriate user drums or grooves do not show up. And off course no more "Shoo" & "Hey" voices... Man, was I surprised!!! I did not loose a second of all those hours spent.

Plus, she now boots in under a half a minute compared to the 5 minutes I'm used to wait. I'm elated, to say the very least.

AJ is busy preparing my new SSD and til then I'm as happy as can be. a HD without any moving parts is the way to go!!! I should have been completely lost & without the Audya now, but I'm not set back, not even in the least!

Tx Ketron for this FANTASTIC piece of machinery. I get happier with it with every passing day. Tx also be to God for quietely inspiring me to make a backup of the most important stuff less than an hour before I loose the HD. There is no coinsidence in any of it...

Keep well all my friends,

Henni

Yup, it's me again,

I have to elaborate on this as this is the REAL miracle:

The last backup I made from the HD was from the non Ajamsonic one September last year. No other backups whatsoever since then.

Then on the evening, roughly one hour before my HD failed, I feel this sudden urge to stop & make backups only of the registries I've created for our outreaches. I do so & wonder why I'm not motivated to back up more stuff, but stop & got right back to playing the Audya.

One hour later I loose my HD! One day later, I'm back in business & I did not loose so much as a single thing that I've prepared for our upcoming outreaches & public appearances.

Now you be the judge of this. There is a saying that goes like this: "One man's miracle is another man's coincidence". The enemy tried to steal from me, but all he could create was a minor disruption...

I have a habit, that when I browse through styles & anything grabs my attention, I save it as a registry right there on the spot. And thus I now have all my favourite styles, regardless of where I found them.

Keep well all my fantastic friends,

a Smiling Henni!!!

Henni

I am happy for you, as I can only imagine how you felt. Yes, bad things happen to good people, but in this case, it was only a hiccup.

On with God's work my friend(with Audya's help, of coarse).

Bernie

Hi Aj,

As i have requested previously? I have your upgrade already, and i am very interested in the ssd option. Can you advise me of cost, or how do i do it.

Thanks. Rob Ballarat, Australia

Hi Henni,

good to hear that you could fix most of your problems.

But, as mentioned in "my" SSD-thread, ANYTHING can fail. A ssd the same way like an hd.

On the other hand you learned something :

1st : ONE BACKUP is at least 2 too less

2nd : One backup each month is not enough, if you WORK with your machine ( no matter if pc or keyboard ) you should do a backup at least once a week, maybe once a day

3rd : Have your hd checked ( windows scandisk or similar ) at least once a month

4th : You know, but for anyone else : Do NEVER, NEVER unplug your Audya from the pc without the "unplug hardware-device" ( I hope it´s correctly translated from the german version ) feature from windows !

5th : Better you never plug you Audya to an Apple-device

Ooops, ... I should make a backup right now ...

Hi Snoopy,

Tx for the advice. The SSD BETTER not fail!!! I can't stand too much of this.

The friend trying to retrieve my data says the HD is shot - it's making noises whilst reading. I honestly never bumped the Audya. According to him those specific type and model of HDs are known for giving problems. I really hope the SSD is more reliable.

But yes, I'll definitely start making regular backups again. But then as you know, if the HD or SDD fails, it's not as simple as restoring the image on a new HD or SSD because of all this copy protection linked to serial number business.

Anyway, hopefully I'll have a new SSD within the next two weeks. I'm really impressed with what AJ did to the Audya & I want it all back asap! It's not the same anymore although it's still one fantastic piece of machinery.

Keep well all my friends,

Henni