Originally Posted By: crazyplums
just plugged the repaired empeg into the pc to download the music before upgrading the software (safer than sorry)

Upgrading the software, especially if you go for v2.00, is really pretty safe. I've never heard of it hosing anyone's music partition. Even if you get a power failure halfway through, or something, you can recover by re-applying the upgrade.

(Upgrading to v3 is a bit different -- though still safe -- as it requires a database rebuild.)

Peter