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

Hello i am a new owner of an EII. So great ! I have a lot of performance disk

The disks are old so i had decided to clean the floppy drives heads

But since two days it is very difficult for my EII to read disks

It start to load sometimes the O.S and sometimes the banks and after he said disc read error

But the disks are in good shape. ( it could read them before the cleanning)

Maybe i had moved the heads and they are not in good position to read the disks?

I tried to adjust them when the loading start. Very difficult

Is it useful.?  sorry for my english. Bon baiser de France Thanks

"Big stack" and "Snares are us" are waiting for me...  :-*

SOrry , The EII said " disk format error " and not " disc read error"

I have the same issue on one of my old drives now removed from the EII and I'm confident it's a misaligned head. Before the error messages it saved data to the floppy readable only in the same drive and no others which appeared a pretty clear sign.

Don't  think anyone services and re-aligns heads on 5.25" floppy drives anymore so you may be faced with sourcing another...., not an easy task I'm afraid ! 

 well I have repaired one floppy disc. Luky . But the second (upper) is definitly dead. I believe in the HXC sd card emulator now !  :o

Does the two floppy disc can be interchanged? Does they have number ID?

Yes, the jumper settings are different depending on whether it is the top (drive 1) or bottom (drive 2). Make a note of where they are before you swap them round.


How did you re-align the head? My searching on how to do this has only brought up former specialist services with diagnostic disks I think no one completes anymore due to lack of demand.