It is useful for the system engineer to initialize the tuning parameters of an adaptive control automatically because less experienced engineers often cause excessive noise and vibration from mechanical plants in the parameter initializing experiment. The adaptation gain and the width of the dead zone are the tuning parameters of the estimation law using the dead zone, and the control law also has additional tuning parameters. In this paper, we propose a new automatic initialization method for an adaptive control with a few tuning parameters that are determined by previously measured input and output data. The width of the dead zone in the estimation law is changed at each iteration depending on the input signal by the function determined by previously measured input and output signals. The control law used here is an H∞ control one [3] that stabilizes the control system and minimizes a kind of H∞ norm of the sensitivity function and the complementary sensitivity function if the upper bound of the unstructured uncertainty of the control object is known. Furthermore, we apply the proposed method to an electro-hydraulic servo system and verify the effects by an experiment.