Agilent 54831D modernising

[ARF]

I made an updated version.
- managed to activate Windows by phone.
- update 5.71 already integrated
- options are already integrated.

try.

If all is well, then I will make a disk version, it will be possible to install using 4 СD disks.

[bostonman]

Oh wow. I will download and try soon.

For the record, I am happy with what I have, but the missing piece (which isn’t a major concern) is the unallocated disk space.

[bostonman]

I forgot how to deal with Ghost.

Do I burn this to a blank CD separately and create it as a bootable or do I boot using something else and then execute Ghost?

[ARF]

Did you read my previous post?

[bostonman]

Oh, the 4 CD version?

[ARF]

I think that now it will be more convenient for you to connect the SSD to a PC with Windows. It's simple and fast, you've done it before.

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[bostonman]

For whatever reason, I can't get the laptop to recognize the USB CD/DVD ROM, so I tried burning this to a USB.

Unfortunately I forgot the scope isn't capable of booting off the USB.

Most likely I'll stick with the previous method(s), but think I asked and didn't get an answer. The license file has options, but is that ALL the options or do more exist?

If so, how do I activate them?

[ARF]

Yes, there are only 2 options for recovery, either through a third-party computer or booting from an CD disk on an oscilloscope.
Were you able to restore my last image?

There are other options, but they are useless. The most useful thing there is memory depth, digital signal decoding, jitter.
You can easily add or remove options by editing the license file with notepad.

[bostonman]

The 4CD image?

That's the one I was referring to. I can't burn it to CDs because my laptop isn't recognizing the external CD/DVD ROM, and the scope doesn't boot from the USB.

I may be able to try the method I did before and use a junk hard drive connected to the IDE secondary.

[ARF]

Simply plug an SSD into your PC, launch Norton for Windows, and restore. (the same way like for HDD raw copy tool)

I'll make a disk version a little later. I need to make a bootable CD first.

Bootable HDD with DOS and Norton for DOS are also suitable.

[bostonman]

Sorry for the lack of updates, but I've been extremely busy. I plan to test this last file you provided, hopefully this weekend.


Edit: Does a description exist for the additional features? I know you said the ones already in the license file are the important ones, but I'm curious what all the other features are.

[ARF]

I don't think anyone has made a complete and detailed description and sorted them by type of supported hardware.
However, if you read the names of the options, it is sometimes clear what they are for.

I wanted to ask. Have you desoldered the resistor on your acquisition board yet? I mean have you already unlocked 1GHz BW?

[bostonman]

I have removed that resistor.

[bostonman]

It didn’t work - see attached

[ARF]

If you let him install the drivers and try again after rebooting?
Second screenshot. - you need to install all the drivers. The interesting thing is that my drivers and yours should match (probably). The only difference is in the configuration resistors on the board.

For convenience, you can hold down the "shift" key while loading Windows - This way you disable autoboot in Windows (scope.exe application) and it will be more convenient for you to install drivers.

[bostonman]

I tried rebooting, and I got the same errors. It wants to connect to the Internet to search for drivers.

[bostonman]

I don't mind using the previous method of installing with Paragon, and using the factory partition to reinstall a fresh copy.

The problem between this recent one you made and that: the hard drive will have unallocated (wasted) space. I don't know how to get around this issue.

[ekoloski]

It's just an NTFS or FAT32 partition that would need to be resized, right?

I'm guessing that you're able to boot from a USB stick into a Linux LiveCD environment? If so, resizing the partition with something like gparted is pretty straightforward, as is removing any partitions you don't need.

Something along the lines of this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/resizing-adding-partitions-with-gparted-live/

[ARF]

Try again to write the image and make the first boot with the "shift" key pressed.
A window will appear with the installation of drivers, click "next, next". Drivers must be built into the system and installed correctly.
If it doesn't, then post it here. Perhaps updating to 5.71 removes unnecessary drivers or something like that.

[bostonman]

Try again to write the image and make the first boot with the "shift" key pressed.

Try which one, the one you made that's a full XP (i.e. four CDs)?

It's just an NTFS or FAT32 partition that would need to be resized, right?

I'm guessing that you're able to boot from a USB stick into a Linux LiveCD environment? If so, resizing the partition with something like gparted is pretty straightforward, as is removing any partitions you don't need.

Maybe this will work, I'll have to try. What I've been getting (and on another laptop) is the unallocated partition (after I duplicate a hard drive onto a larger hard drive) can't be touched. The OS partition can't be expanded and I can't seem to mate the OS partition and the unallocated to make one total hard drive.

[ARF]

 full XP (i.e. four CDs) - yes

Try it, if it does not work, then I will make for you the same installer from the recovery partition that you have already tested on your scope.

[bostonman]

I’ll try this weekend - hopefully

[bostonman]

I tried your suggestion and it didn’t work.

I don’t necessarily need you to make the previous one (that requires Paragon to install) as a Norton installer. The bigger issue is the unused hard drive space. Gparted treats the XP partition as one and the unused 29GB as a separate partition eliminating me from trying to make one big 32GB partition.

So my needs are more about installing XP so it doesn’t just use a few GB and waste the rest of the hard drive.

[ARF]

if I make it as an installer through Norton, then there will be no problem with the partition size. Now you have a partition on the entire disk, right?

[bostonman]

Two partitions. One is about 7GB with XP and the other is about 27GB blank.

The Norton one you made prior allowed the entire 32GB to be seen as one drive, and I think the Paragon one may have, I don’t remember now.