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Well it's definitely not possible to download the OS and save it to 
disk. As you said, the disk has to be formatted by the EII - and once 
formatted it can not be read/written by any PC/Mac anymore... 

Now I also had one drive (5.25) of which the motor was running but no 
read/write/boot activity was possible at all.
The guy who sold the EII to me solved the problem by cleaning the 
diskheads with a cleaner disk + clean fluid once a month (!)

I was also going to do that, but the problem was solved in another 
rather exceptional way: when I was opening the Emulator II, the 
sampler suddenly fell from the chair on the floor. Of course I was in 
panic and I thought that the whole EmuII would be dead. However the 
opposite was true ! Some bad buttons suddenly worked fine again, and -
 more importantly - the drive was 100% OK again !

Of course I perfectly understand that you will not throw your EII on 
the floor in order to "repair" your drive... But the story may prove 
that the problem could be caused by some minor mechanical thing 
inside your drive.

///E-Synthesist


--- In emulatorII-list@...m, "mikehilario77" 
<mikehilario77@...> wrote:
>
> Hello all, I have owned my emulator for some time now.
> I recently decided to install a 3.5 lower drive. I dont remember 
> exactly where I went wrong, but at some point long ago I was unable 
to 
> get my original 5.2 drive to boot consistantly. Recently I havent 
been 
> able to get it to work(load diskette)keeps coming up. So I thought 
I 
> would istall the second drive, and boot from there. Problem is I do 
> not own a 3.5 os disc. My thinking was that I could download it 
from 
> an emulator web site. Is there such a place that I could go to for 
the 
> OS. Im not exactly sure that that would solve my problem, being 
that 
> the disc has to be formatted in the E2, correct ??
> Well anyhow, Id like to begin trouble shooting anyway I can. It 
could 
> be the Os Disc. It is a version OS 3.1( 5.2)and was made copied 
about 
> 5 years ago. Is it commen that these discs go bad ? The motor on 
the 
> 5.2 drive seems to be running, my connections are correct. Im not 
sure 
> if I need to change my jumper settings ?? I dont remember playing 
with 
> them at all?? So as you can see I am very fresh with all this 
stuff, 
> so many of questions have arised. ASny help wouls be appriciated.
> My ultimate goal is to get both drives going so that I can copy all 
of 
> my sound discs. My emulator came with 2 drives, I tried replacing 
them 
> awile ago, and ended up tossing the original drive. What the heck 
was 
> I thinking ?? Well the set up never worked.. So that is where I am 
at 
> the moment.
> 
> 
> Thanks for reading..best
>