Hey, sorry to burst your technology bubble but I partitioned my hard drive on my mini-tower PC, and then FORMATTED it on the same PC, then installed it into the PSR-9000 and it works flawlessly. In fact, my mini-tower is a clone (nothing special).
The PSR-9000 does not have to format the drive itself. It can use any 2.5" Windows PC formatted hard drive. Here's what I did:
1. Booted up using a Windows 98 boot disk. I did this because I had removed the cable from my C: hard drive and plugged it into the 2.5" Toshiba drive. I have a cheap converter that fastens onto your hard drive cable ($10.00), then accessed the drive - easy.
2. Partitioned the drive into 3 partitions using Fdisk.
3. Formatted and labeled each drive. Be sure to label your formatted partitions because the label shows up on the Yamaha's screen.
So, there you go . . . been using it since I got my PSR-9000, and if you remember -- I WAS FIRST! (I just love saying that.)
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