My Kronos' own little secret partition

[mathieumaes]

Last night, the weirdest thing happened. I did some sampling work on my Kronos, and I wanted to transfer those samples to my PC. I connected my portable HDD to Kronos, it's a Lacie Rikiki (http://www.lacie.com/be/products/product.htm?id=10517). I went to disk mode, selected the proper drive and saved all sample data in RAM as Wave files.

I powered off my Kronos, connected my HDD to my laptop but then I had a panic attack: the files weren't there!
Then I remembered not seeing any of the files and folders that are already on the drive in disk mode... So I went back to Kronos, and to my surprise I could still see the sample files in disk mode!!
Media info showed an MS-DOS partition of 256 Mb in size. But on my pc, all I see is the 1.0 tB NTFS partition. Even in disk management, I don't see any hidden partitions.

I finally copied my samples to a pendrive which worked fine on my PC and made a mental note of not using my Lacie in my piano! Kronos appears to have found a little dark corner of the HDD where it stores its files!

[danatkorg]

Last night, the weirdest thing happened. I did some sampling work on my Kronos, and I wanted to transfer those samples to my PC. I connected my portable HDD to Kronos, it's a Lacie Rikiki (http://www.lacie.com/be/products/product.htm?id=10517). I went to disk mode, selected the proper drive and saved all sample data in RAM as Wave files.

I powered off my Kronos, connected my HDD to my laptop but then I had a panic attack: the files weren't there!
Then I remembered not seeing any of the files and folders that are already on the drive in disk mode... So I went back to Kronos, and to my surprise I could still see the sample files in disk mode!!
Media info showed an MS-DOS partition of 256 Mb in size. But on my pc, all I see is the 1.0 tB NTFS partition. Even in disk management, I don't see any hidden partitions.

I finally copied my samples to a pendrive which worked fine on my PC and made a mental note of not using my Lacie in my piano! Kronos appears to have found a little dark corner of the HDD where it stores its files!

Sounds like your drive had a small FAT32 partition. I don't know why this didn't show up on your PC - look to Windows for the answer!

You can use FAT16 and FAT32 USB storage devices with the KRONOS. OS-specific formats (such as Windows NTFS - as with your portable disk - and OS X HFS+) are not supported.

[mathieumaes]

Sounds like your drive had a small FAT32 partition. I don't know why this didn't show up on your PC - look to Windows for the answer!

That's the weird part, it doesn't have one.

When I go to the disk management utility from Windows, it clearly shows the drive with just one NTFS partition.
This is not my screenshot, but my drive looks exactly like disk 2 in this picture:
http://www.eightforums.com/attachments/ ... gement.png

[Yuma]

Maybe a hidden partition, which can't be seen by Windows, but can be seen by the OS in Kronos.

[SanderXpander]

Hidden partitions should still show up in the disk management utility. Very strange indeed. Perhaps you just got a bogus write due to the disk being NTFS?
EDIT: actually, did you try to reproduce yet?