E-mu Emulator Sampler User Forum for the EIII EII EI and EIII XP

Thinking of converting the old gal into the 21st century and install the Lotharek HxC Floppy Emulator.
But I seem to recall someone posting here possible compatibility issues because of the harddrive OS.

If not, which drive do you replace? the HD?

thank you

There are two ways:
1 simple one - you just remove the HDD, install HXC and boot with regular os (not HD one) and it will work perfectly with remaining FDD and HXC
2 second one is complex, you need to replace ROMs, remove HDD board and replace chip.

first one works fine, but it take more time to boot - EMU need some time to understand that HDD is disconnected.

here is link for second way: http://eiiiforum.com/index.php?topic=956.0

Thank you so much for the info. I'll visit that thread when I have a bit more time.
Replacing the HD sounds much easier, especially since my HD has been acting strange since I bought it, so I just avoid using it, and use my Mac and SD.

Have a look of this nice tutorial by Retrosound. It helped me a lot when I did my HxC Upgrade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kSYxOnvwQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kSYxOnvwQ)

An EII HD is not an EII +.
Like Deft already explained you must downgrade the EPROMs if you want to have a normal working EII.
The EII HD try to boot from its HD first and boots from the floppy after xxx retries if the HD not response.

Thank you both for your comments.
Yes, I've seen Marco's video on both the EII and Emax. Looks fairly simple.

Wolfman, I'm a bit confused because Deft wrote: There are two ways:
1 simple one - you just remove the HDD, install HXC and boot with regular os (not HD one) and it will work perfectly with remaining FDD and HXC
2 second one is complex, you need to replace ROMs, remove HDD board and replace chip.

But I remember from an existing thread someone posted the eproms need to be replaced with the HD model.
Which is something I'm not prepared to do.

Thank you again