Agilent E5062A need HDD image

[Eugene1970]

Hi all, I just got a VNA Agilent E5062A  without a hard drive.
I need a disk image.

Unfortunatly I did not find a image of the drive so far.
Since the device is old I doubt that Agilent(Keysight) will hand over the image, but maybe someone has cloned one?

It a good idea create a back up of HDD.

Thank you very much!

[tagchen]

Question, have you a HDD or a CF-Card in it?

[analogRF]

were you able to find an image?

My recently acquired E5062A (Win2K) boots and works with no problem. chkdsk in win2k reports bad sectors on drive C:
but the file system has no problem and I have yet to face any issue with the VNA so the bad sectors are probably something not critical
but for the life of me I cannot make a clone image.
as I always do, I connect the drive through a IDE-USB adapter to my laptop and sure I can navigate through the 4 partitions
and run chkdsk on them or scandisk and I get no errors
but when I try to make a clone image (I have always used HDDRawCopy1.10.exe which basically implements the linux 'dd' ) I get read errors and the program hangs. I have cloned at least 10-12 hard drives of various instruments using this same setup.

I also tried ddrescue and dd on ubunu (again connected the HDD using IDE-USB to the Linux laptop) and I get exactly the same problem
I didn't follow through the ddrescue though. when it seemed to stall, I just quit. maybe I should let it run 2-3 times perhaps in the
following runs it can rescue more and eventually give a usable image? any idea?

[analogRF]

Question, have you a HDD or a CF-Card in it?

the hard drive on mine is a Hitachi Deskstar 82GB it has 4 partitions (one is for recovery and contains a ghost image I think)
and runs Win2K. it has a Celeron 566MHz CPU and 256MB RAM (I think FSB is 66MHz)
It should be possible to upgrade to PIII 1GHz and 512MB PC133 and easily run WinXP
but how? I don't have the VNA software separately to install after installing WinXP

the motherboard is a RadiSys SC815E. Only two PCI slots are used one for an interface board and one for GPIB
It can only take up to 512MB RAM up to PC133

[Eugene1970]

I bought the device without a hard drive.

[Eugene1970]

no, I can't find the image.

If you can't create an image,
you can copy the contents of the hard disk partitions.
I can then write the files to a clean hard drive, restore the mbr, and get the drive.
The fact that the disk has bad sectors is not good.

[Eugene1970]

it may be possible to upgrade 2000 to xp.
It is more difficult to install xp, drivers, and then VNA software.
I can try to perform an update, but I need a hdd image.
can you share it?

[N8AUM]

Did you ever find image ?

[BeamDump]

I can offer image from 5071B, if that helps. Still trying to understand the cloning process though, something's off.