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Recovery DVD for Agilent 16801A logic analyzer

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Keysight DanielBogdanoff:

--- Quote from: gslick on July 11, 2017, 08:11:13 pm ---
I wonder if you can upgrade your 16801A with the M880 motherboard to Windows 7 yourself without an official 16800AU upgrade and if there would be any benefit of doing so?


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You maybe could, but if I recall correctly the M880 didn't like Windows 7, so we used the M890 for the Windows 7 upgrade.

gslick:

--- Quote from: Keysight_DanielBogdanoff on July 11, 2017, 10:39:44 pm ---You maybe could, but if I recall correctly the M880 didn't like Windows 7, so we used the M890 for the Windows 7 upgrade.

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This page about the 16800AU Windows 7 Upgrade kits for 16800 Series says that 16800AU-W7N is an "UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 7 VIA ADDING MEMORY TO EXISTING M880 MOTHERBOARD WITH NEW INTERNAL DRIVE (For analyzer with S/N MY46000101-MY51420100)". I might be wrong but I would read that as saying you could upgrade a system with an M880 motherboard to Windows 7 just by adding more memory and replacing the hard drive with a new one containing the Windows 7 system image, for about half the cost of upgrading by also replacing the M880 botherboard with the M890 motherboard.

http://www.keysight.com/en/pd-2532686-pn-16800AU/windows-7-upgrade-kits-for-16800-series

Any idea if the reason there is no DVD recovery media for the Windows 7 system image is simply because it is too large to fit on a DVD, while the Windows XP system image did fit on a DVD?

Astrodev:
I have a 16802a which is Win7 based and appears to have had a recovery DVD V5.90 with it when I acquired it, I will have to check it out but this may be what you are looking for, I will let you know.

gslick:

--- Quote from: Astrodev on July 18, 2017, 02:57:38 pm ---I have a 16802a which is Win7 based and appears to have had a recovery DVD V5.90 with it when I acquired it, I will have to check it out but this may be what you are looking for, I will let you know.

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I am curious if that DVD can recover a full OS installation from scratch on a blank hard drive, or if it is only for installing or upgrading the logic analyzer application on top of an already installed OS.

On the 16901A I recently acquired with an M890 motherboard and Windows Embedded 7 installed the recovery partition on the hard drive is something like 12GB in size. Maybe if the recovery image was compressed it could fit on a DVD, I don't know. I haven't determined yet the best way to backup or clone the hard drive so that the OS could be restored to a new hard drive in case of failure.

The 16901A service manual says: "In case of a hard disk failure, you send your 16901 Logic Analysis unit to Agilent for repair/replacement of the failed/defective hard disk." The 16800 series service manual says the same thing. A hard disk failure could turn out to be an expensive repair if you weren't able to replace and restore the hard drive yourself.

alm:

--- Quote from: gslick on July 19, 2017, 03:01:58 am ---I haven't determined yet the best way to backup or clone the hard drive so that the OS could be restored to a new hard drive in case of failure.

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Since it is Windows based, I imagine you could use standard Windows cloning tools like True Image to a USB HD/pen drive. It would probably be good to test recovery to a spare drive.

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