Who would have thought putting a PC and windows in a spectrum analyzer was a bad idea ?
Sometimes ago I found myself wanting some newer gears. Maybe running some version of windows, with nice UI and everything. Well I got some of those now and I'm currently living in PC hell.
Is it booting ? no of course not.
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So I'm trying to upgrade the harddrive to something better than those old mechanical one prone to failure. Got a adapter, because everything is SATA now and not IDE. Which one of those is actually going to work ?
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The drive is detected correctly.
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Going back to Acronis True Image, now this time actually pay attention to what the software is doing. The original drive is quite simple, just 2 partitions that bootup with MBR.
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Now when I copy the image on another drive Acronis Is actually converting the drive to GPT (different way of representing the master boot record), wait what
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Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!
mnem
*huggles his 189 close*
Bah.I'm set on this one.
Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!
That is a very wise decision. I've only got the Metrahit 25s, but even that one has higher resolution (more steps) than the 87V (87V has 19999, the 25s has 31000). I do sense some english-language-centric fanboy-ism in the 87 cult, and I'm not unaffected: I've got as many Flukes as every other handheld meter brand together ( 7 Flukes, 3 Avometers, 2 Gossen, one -hp-, one H&B)
All mentioned meters can do enough for most situations, I believe..
<whisper>
I don't own a 87V ...
</whisper>
We know, courtesy of the session with the insulation tester last week, that the extension cord is good, so I put it to use.
It didn’t occur to me to test the hedge trimmers with it until I got them out, but it turns out that wouldn’t have been possible in much of a meaningful way since they’re double insulated with no ground.
It's not level !
Now when I copy the image on another drive Acronis Is actually converting the drive to GPT (different way of representing the master boot record), wait what
Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!
Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!
Capt. Bullshot is right. Use Linux / dd and it should work out in your sense.
https://serverfault.com/questions/4906/using-dd-for-disk-cloning
I recommend to use the Linux tool box for such cases: grml.
https://grml.org/
mnem
*huggles his 189 close*
Bah.I'm set on this one.
That is a very wise decision. I've only got the Metrahit 25s, but even that one has higher resolution (more steps) than the 87V (87V has 19999, the 25s has 31000). I do sense some english-language-centric fanboy-ism in the 87 cult, and I'm not unaffected: I've got as many Flukes as every other handheld meter brand together ( 7 Flukes, 3 Avometers, 2 Gossen, one -hp-, one H&B)
All mentioned meters can do enough for most situations, I believe..
That is a very wise decision. I've only got the Metrahit 25s, but even that one has higher resolution (more steps) than the 87V (87V has 19999, the 25s has 31000). I do sense some english-language-centric fanboy-ism in the 87 cult, and I'm not unaffected: I've got as many Flukes as every other handheld meter brand together ( 7 Flukes, 3 Avometers, 2 Gossen, one -hp-, one H&B)
All mentioned meters can do enough for most situations, I believe..
<whisper>
I don't own a 87V ...
</whisper>
Who would have thought putting a PC and windows in a spectrum analyzer was a bad idea ?
Sometimes ago I found myself wanting some newer gears. Maybe running some version of windows, with nice UI and everything. Well I got some of those now and I'm currently living in PC hell.
Is it booting ? no of course not.
So I'm trying to upgrade the harddrive to something better than those old mechanical one prone to failure. Got a adapter, because everything is SATA now and not IDE. Which one of those is actually going to work ?
The drive is detected correctly.
Going back to Acronis True Image, now this time actually pay attention to what the software is doing. The original drive is quite simple, just 2 partitions that bootup with MBR.
Now when I copy the image on another drive Acronis Is actually converting the drive to GPT (different way of representing the master boot record), wait what
Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!
It finally showed up yesterday. Thanks to BU508A.
I got in on that evilbay sale of the Fluke 27/AN meters; listed at $150, offered $130 and it was accepted, so wound up getting it for about $150 after shipping and paying the .gov's cut. It arrived today. Pretty sure it's brand spankin' new old stock - don't think it was ever out of the box. It includes the 6 kV and 40 kV probes, the RF probe, an operator's manual and a service manual complete with schematics and parts list.
Pah, the Brymen 867 & 869 can beat that with 50000 as standard and special 500000 mode, but I don't huggle that close, as a rule its useless, I find a tape measure is way better for that job
I think I'm gonna go look ad DIY vids on replacing a window screen... try and work smarter, not harder.
mnem
no, no, no, no, no... not Home Improvement!!! bad dwagon!!!Ah, that job I did yesterday. The tiny white fluffy puppy knocked the screen out of a patio door. It took all of 3 minutes to put it back.
The key point is to know what size of slot is in the door/window. Then know the thickness of the screen (I use a very heavy "animal" mesh here for good reason). After that, choose the appropriate thickness of spline; thick enough to hold tight, but not to the point where it is too thick to install. There are generally 4 sizes of spline in the GWN.
EDIT: I had no idea of Uncle Bumblebutt's shenanigans when I posted that.... nice spline!
Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!
Don't use "smart" tools to copy the HDD. Use an as dumb as possible tool to copy the old hard drive content to the new one sector by sector. This will completely preserve the layout etc. Best results are achieved using "dd" on a Linux box.
Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!
Don't use "smart" tools to copy the HDD. Use an as dumb as possible tool to copy the old hard drive content to the new one sector by sector. This will completely preserve the layout etc. Best results are achieved using "dd" on a Linux box.
I'm going to be the one guy who says otherwise, and that you should use a smart clone utility... and that's because I've been doing SSDs since before Windoze "did it all for you".
dd and *NIX utilities don't do one critical thing for you: align the SSD for optimal block size. While you probably aren't going to get TRIM with the prehistoric (I'm guessing slimlined embedded version) OS that thing runs, just copying a disk image from spinning rust to a SATA SSD is going to perform like poop. In many cases, no differently than the spinning rust it replaces.
Ah, that job I did yesterday.
The tiny white fluffy puppy knocked the screen out of a patio door. It took all of 3 minutes to put it back.
There is one discipline, where dd is really shining; exact 1:1 copies of harddisks.
This is also the reason, why dd is one of the forensic tools being used.
https://forensicswiki.xyz/wiki/index.php?title=Dd
I'd stay away from any smart tools in this respect. And when it comes to old harddisks / filesystems etc. I'd highly advise to avoid any kind of optimization.
Just my 2 cents.
What you're missing out here Mnem is that this isn't stock hardware running stock Windows. This is a bit of embedded gear. Having watched EEs who believe themselves to be genius* programmers in action it is entirely possible that the muppet in question may have relied on knowing the exact physical disk layout in use to have done something like hide the enabled options in a specific disk sector, called out by a "magic number" hardcoded into the code, which he them proceeds to read directly from the disk with a BIOS call. (If done, the options sector will of course be cleverly encrypted by XORing each byte with the number '42'.**) Or may have created a backing buffer for memory at a known, again hard coded with magic numbers, location on disk that is read and written directly, bypassing the operating system entirely.
Faced with the possibility of this level of "coding brilliance" being present it's wise for embedded gear to produce a 1:1, sector by sector clone.
The aim here isn't to get a perfectly optimised, or even partially optimised, disk system. It's to get a working disk system that will be more reliable than the ageing drive that's currently there and, with a little bit of luck, may even be faster. The later is "nice to have" but isn't part of the objective and is easily lived without.
*The word "genius" here is to be pronounced exactly as it was by Phillip Pope playing "Leonardo Acropolis" in the Blackadder II episode "Money" as he declaimed "I am genius".
**True story, I've seen this done as 'encryption' in an option encoding scheme.