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rsbonini:
I recently picked up a LeCroy Wavesurfer MXs-B for a pretty good deal.  Still in the original box with un-opened probes.  Really pleased with it.  At my first real engineering job I cut my teeth on a Wavesurfer 424 and have always preferred the MAUI control interface since.

That being said I'm a little concerned with the fact that it has an HDD which will eventually die and render me scopeless once again.  Additionally I have an original QA400 audio analyzer that still pulls its wieght, but requires a dedicated 13" Win7 laptop on my bench since my main machine runs Win10 and Linux, and the software for it won't run on those.  It'd be absolutely stellar to run the software on the LeCroy instead and free up that space.

My initial attempt was to clone the drive using Macrium reflect onto a new SSD preserving the exact same partitions along with some unallocated space.  When attempting to boot the scope I got an MBR Error 3, the Acronis recovery F11 was no longer presented, and it wanted to run CHDSK every boot...  Not a great result.

I tried getting into BIOS to see if I could convince it to boot from a USB, get into recovery mode, and then rebuild the MBR locally.  The BIOS is password protected and nothing I could find online seemed to work.

Then I tried to see if i could run the recovery process, but Acronis simply failed when I tried to activate the F11 boot recovery option.

I guess my plan at this point is to see if I can rebuild the software on a blank SSD.  My understanding of this process is:

1) create C and D partitions
2) install windows on C
3) copy drive D data from the original HDD
4) install X-Stream software (firmware is already latest as per LeCroy website)

To those with more knowledge/experience with these mahcines than myself.  Does this seem correct?  Any pitfalls to watchout for?  BIOS password?

On a side note, it seems that some of these units shipped with a Win7 install.  Could this unit (2013 vintage) run windows 7?
Momchilo:
Hi,
you can create C and D partitions and install Windows and X-Stream manually. You don't need anything else except the calibration data. It's a hidden folder in D:\
This is the only software piece that you can't recover if lost and it's very important. Just copy this folder to a save backup place before you're doing anything else with the scope.

But cloning C and D is also possible. I did this more than once with Lecroy scopes. I used the freeware tool DriveImage XML for the backups and recoveries. It worked perfectly fine. I think I had to set the C partition to active in diskpart for Windows to boot.

Did you try the BIOS password "lcrsys"?
darkstar49:

W7 support on the gen1 (M)Xs-B (PS/2 ports on the I/O shield) is not granted as far as I recall...
If you have gen2 (no PS/2 ports, and the 'red' acq board), it should be OK.
rsbonini:
I received some advice from Wuerstchenhund to try doing a drive clone with Macrium installed on the scope instead of having the drive connected to a separate PC.  I finally got around to trying this.  After cloning and swapping out the drives the scope booted up no problem first time.  I was also able to get QA400 software installed and working.  For now I've switched back to the hdd, but I have a fully-working drop-in backup at this point.  A huge relief.

Here are some photos of the scope:












An upgrade to win7 would provide built-in ssd trim support (unlike Windows XP) and is an appealing option as a result.

The scope does not have PS/2 ports, an the acquisition board is red, so based on the previous post this should be able to work with windows 7?  Can anyone else confirm this, or provide additional information?



rsbonini:
Minor update on this effort.  Primary goal is to get an SSD installed to mitigate risk of drive failure.  Win 7 upgrade is primarily because Win XP isn't able to TRIM SSD drives. 

Progress:
1)  Win 7 Starter installed and seems to run just fine on the machine.
2)  D: drive created and everything from the original hard drive copied over.
3)  Installed The DSO software from LeCroy's website.  Seemed to go ok but it requested to upgrade the firmware on the FPGA which was declined because I didn't want to break hardware working with the original drive.
4)  Tried to installed the XStream drivers also from the LeCroy site but keep getting a "no LeCroy hardware" error message.
5)  Was able to start the DSO software but it gave a "no calibration data found" error message, so it wasn't able to load the cal data.

Any ideas out there on why it didn't pick up the D:/Calibration folder and/or data therein?  Thanks!

For those who might find it useful, the BIOS password is "lcrsys".
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