Pa4x Hard drive change to an SSD

deminda · Post by **deminda** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:07 am

I have a 76 key version and it has a seperate Hard drive which I am hoping to swap for a SSD or a larger USB flash drive. Will this be possible? Any ideas
Thanks

Snoopy · Post by **Snoopy** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 4:22 pm

Hi,

when I got my PA4X-76"Musikant" I opened it after unboxing and replaced the original HD with an SSD, no problems so far.

The system doesn´t run faster than with an HD, the "only" advantage is that you don´t have any moving parts in your key anymore.

deminda · Post by **deminda** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 6:05 am

Thanks for your reply.
Did u have to install the OS again. Or this hard drive is separated from the disk where OS is installed. Does the requirement of more power to an SSD will become an issue. Thx

deminda · Post by **deminda** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 8:17 am

I am having troubles installing the SSD. Its not detected by the Pa4X.
Tried to format as exFAT, NTFS and also using GPT partition table but no luck.
How did u install it??

ozdaniel(AD) · Post by **ozdaniel(AD)** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 9:50 am

deminda wrote:I am having troubles installing the SSD. Its not detected by the Pa4X.
Tried to format as exFAT, NTFS and also using GPT partition table but no luck.
How did u install it??

Please look here, you may find the answer, even if it is in Romanian, I think you can understand the film https://youtu.be/AbnW1wsgDiY?t=39m6s
It's a way to format the SSD in Fat32

Regards
Daniel

Snoopy · Post by **Snoopy** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:46 am

deminda wrote:...Did u have to install the OS again...

Hi,

no, no installation necessary ( all needed files are in ROM, otherwise the key wouldn´t work without SSD / HD )

. The original HD is EMPTY ! (Anyway, I did a sectorcopy of the original HD and put it to the SSD prior plugging it into the PA4X so I had not to format it ).

The best way to format the SSD is directly in the key. ( MEDIA, tab "Format" and then just do it. )

If you want to do it in Windows :

Connext your SSD to the PC, then look into the explorer which driveletter your SSD has ( let´s say "F" here )
Open a commandline as administrator.
Then type : "format f: /FS:FAT32" + ENTER-key ( without the "" )
that´s it.

deminda · Post by **deminda** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 1:25 am

Thank you all for the great help. I formatted it using windows. Only problem is the FAT 32 maximum partition size is 32 GB. So I had to do several partitions.

Snoopy · Post by **Snoopy** » Mon Apr 17, 2017 10:09 am

Hi,

the 32GB is a limitation of some Windows-systems formatting disks... ( with partitioning tools like "Acronis Disk Manager" you don´t have that limitation ).

"Native"a FAT32-drive may be up to 2 TB in size, the only limitation is the maximum file-size of 4GB ( you won´t reach it on a keyboard

)

So just format it in the key ...

leokoli · Post by **leokoli** » Wed Feb 25, 2026 5:47 pm

I would like to change the HDD to SSD, my question is if you load MIDI or MP3 file DOES THE SPEED OF LOADING CHANGES, on Hdd if you load an MP3 file on the second player, then it’s like a two seconds loading and not starting immediately

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