Melco EDS III Help

By mdawncooper on Jul. 14, 2012

I hope somebody here can help me. My aunt recently gave me her Melco EDS III single head machine. She has lost the dongle for the program but the computer she gave me has the Wilcom program on it. Since I realize I may not be able to send from the computer to the machine, I was going to just use floppy disks. When I turn on the machine it says insert boot disk. She has two different floppy disks that say Boot Disk but neither one works. It always says boot disk error. Is there anyone out there that can help me or tell me someone who can? I live in the Houston area.

Thanks for reading.

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Submitted by AJST on Sun, 07/15/2012 - 07:30

On some of the older embroidery machines with the 3.5 floppies the floppy drive gets dirty and needs cleaning. The first thing I would try is to use a floppy disk cleaner. You used to be able to find them at any computer shop, but since its considered old technology you may have to find one on the internet.
http://www.floppydisk.com/cleaner.htm
Before you go into a lot of other diagnostic procedures I would try this first.

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Submitted by mdawncooper on Sun, 07/15/2012 - 15:21

AJST wrote:
On some of the older embroidery machines with the 3.5 floppies the floppy drive gets dirty and needs cleaning. The first thing I would try is to use a floppy disk cleaner. You used to be able to find them at any computer shop, but since its considered old technology you may have to find one on the internet.
http://www.floppydisk.com/cleaner.htm
Before you go into a lot of other diagnostic procedures I would try this first.

Thank you so much. I will try that.

Melanie

Submitted by mdawncooper on Sat, 09/29/2012 - 17:29

AJST wrote:
On some of the older embroidery machines with the 3.5 floppies the floppy drive gets dirty and needs cleaning. The first thing I would try is to use a floppy disk cleaner. You used to be able to find them at any computer shop, but since its considered old technology you may have to find one on the internet.
http://www.floppydisk.com/cleaner.htm
Before you go into a lot of other diagnostic procedures I would try this first.

Well I tried the cleaner and even ordered a new boot disk from melco and still nothing. My husband is going to try to attached a different floppy drive but he commented that when you turn the machine on, there are all red lights on the circuit board, no green ones. UGH. Any more suggestions.

Submitted by Jarcarrillo on Thu, 05/22/2014 - 14:29

Good afternoon, would somebody be able to tell me where I can get those floppy to USB converter for a melco EMC6 MTL please.

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