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I've recently rejoined the forum after many years in the EII wilderness, prompted by guilt every time I look at my EII and considerable excitement about stumbling across the HxC solution in recent weeks.

My EII fell into disuse after the second floppy drive went from intermittant to dead (an unfortunate path trodden by the first drive a couple of years before). 

I also recall crackling in sections within my own samples, so having read as many threads on the forum as I can find, I'm expecting to have to do some work on the RAM and possibly the power supply (at least).

As I have no working floppy drive, no Mac/SD for EII solution and no comms  link to PC or Mac, I therefore don't have any way of getting an image and an OS from my floppies onto the SD card to get me going (to even see if the EII has suffered any other deterioration over the years stored in the studio).

I may have misunderstood, but am I right in thinking that once I have my HxC installed (and the software), all I will need to get hold of is an OS image and a single SD for EII soundfile to get going? 

I'd then need to wait for the Read/Write support to start building up a library from the EII (or source more SD for EII files)?

Have I made any silly logic leaps here or am actually getting close to a working EII again?

(I assume the OS image could be emailed and could just be dropped onto an SD card and off I go?).

Thanks if anyone can advise.

Cheers