(mine only had two screws securing the metal box). Only unscrew the 2-4 screws in the area that mounts on the metal box that holds the hard and floppy drives to the bottom of the chasis. The hard drive will stay put and screwed inside the box, this is located above the floppy. When taking out floppy/hard drive both are covered by a metal box, remove the hard drive ribbon and power first so you have space to work.
I really like having access to all my floppys in one place. Going through this process gave my Kurzweil K2000 a new lease on life. USB Floppy Manager II allows you to save these images onto your USB thumb drive.WinHex allows you to take any Kurzweil K2000 floppy disk and save it as a.I've provided the basics below and will add more detail to this blog as time allows.
The software that came with your floppy emulator is a pain but it does work. By using a combination of the buttons you can cycle through 100 "disks". The button on the left allows you to advance the "tens" column 0-9. Of the two buttons, the one of the right allows you to advance 0-9.The buttons on the floppy emulator allow you to choose which floppy you want to read / write from.At this point you should be able save programs onto your thumb drive the same way that you used to do with floppy disks.Take a break and pat yourself on the back, your done for now.You've just formatted your thumb drive into 100 1.4MB floppy disks. When it is complete it will read nothing but zeros on the display. Release you hold on the buttons and wait for the emulator to finish it's cycle.Keep holding the buttons down until you see the LED display on the emulator start cycling through numbers. Hold down the two buttons on the emulator simultaneously and power on the synth.Insert a usb thumb drive into the usb port on the floppy emulator.Flip the synth back to it's normal position and plug it in.Replace the 6 screws that you removed earlier.Flip the bottom of the synth back onto the top.Carefully connect the ribbon and power connectors. Insert the new floppy drive emulator into the bay and screw it in.Make sure you have set the jumpers on the floppy emulator to the "MO" and "JA" positions.Once the screws are removed, take the floppy drive out of the synth. Carefully remove the ribbon and power connectors from the drive and unscrew it from the bay. There is a cable connecting the two parts together. Carefully lift the bottom of the synth and flip it away from you.One in each corner and two in the middle. There are 6 screws that you need to remove.Flip the synth upside down on a soft surface.
You need to make sure you have a block in the "MO" and the "JA" positions on the floppy emulator. Probably the most frustrating thing for me to figure out.
If you have a newer version of windows you will need to run the software in compatibility mode. If you buy the emulator that I liked to above it will come with the software that you need.I plan to try one out on a Sequential Circuits Prophet 2000 in the near future. There are intended to replace 720kb floppy drives. There is another variation out there that starts with SFRM72.It was perfect as a replacement for the floppy drive in my K2000. SFR1M44-U100K / This model only works as a replacement for 1.4 MB floppy drives.From what I can tell they are all basically manufactured by the same company. many like that option.There are a ton of options coming out of China. They work around it by a system of 0 to 99 (if I recall) where you get 1.44 for FPY:0 and hit the button, and you get 1.44 on FPY:1, to FPY:99 something like that. It uses the USB physical hardware layer, but only gives you 1.44Mb of capacity still. If you use the gotek emulator, you will need to format the USB stick to 1.44Mb. By that I mean it seems to cover others besides just TM/MM here is a link that had the MM breakdowns and drawings in it. It may be listed in with others in a collection PDF. Did they call this a mini-mill at somepoint? Search the archives here. I use the filetype:pdf option in the google search. The highland DNC/Drip setup is used by many, but there are others. The Gotek floppy emulator is the usual choice for these by many.