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darkstar49:
Hello together,

anyone ever attempted a h/w (mobo) and/or disk and/or OS upgrade of the PC part in an RTO ??

Just got an RTO1024, it works fine, but runs W7 embedded (x64) on a slow 160GB HDD, I'd like to at least replace the disk by an SSD, and eventually the mobo (Core 2 Duo currently, P8400), and also upgrade to W7 Pro, in order to install some additional software.
R&S just said that OS upgrade needs h/w upgrade (in a service center...), which I don't really believe, unless they took specific measures to prevent such an upgrade ??
The question in fact turns to: can the RTO software be user-installed on a blank OS, or is R&S needed for the initial installation ?

And... it has some options I'd hate to loose, anyone knows where these get stored ?? In a file ? Or in some EEPROM outside the mobo (like Lecroy) ?

I'll post some pics and results when I've some time, but would appreciate any info upfront...

larry42:
I have an older RTE1104 -

I am almost certain you cannot go from W7 Embedded to W7Pro

Win Embedded systems are built specifically by the vendors with certain features added /removed.
I doubt that R&S will upgrade to W7Pro - I think they would offer to upgrade to a Win10 platform (and probably require H/W upgrade due to drivers - probably also drivers for DAQ cards / video cards) - probably not worth the price.

SSD upgrade is possible, but you need a FW CD / USB drive from R&S to boot from and install. I have done this on my RTE - makes the boot time and file saves faster (boot time ca. 1:30 from 2:30)


Anyone know how to enable options on these units?



jjoonathan:
Hey, could someone with a Windows 7 RTO1000 use HWInfo (or something) to give me the dirty details of the RAM configuration?

Mine is an XP RTO1000, which ships with 2GB RAM as opposed to the 8GB standard on W7 RTO1000s. I've tried putting in new 2x4GB DDR3-1066 SODIMMs but haven't been able to get it to POST with them. For reference, here is what my current configuration looks like.

Jackob:

I upgraded the mechanical HDD to a SSD in my RTO1004. To do that you do not need anything from R&S - you just pop out the RTO HDD out from the scope, connect it to a PC and clone the HDD to a SSD. For cloning I used Norton Ghost. You can probably use also other HDD cloning softwares.

For the cloning I connected the RTO HDD and the SSD to SATA cables from my PC (when the PC was off), then booted the PC to DOS from an USB stick, run Ghost.exe from the same USB-stick and cloned the HDD to the SSD. I did the cloning via DOS to prevent my PC's OS from writing anything to the HDD to be cloned...

BR, Jackob

nctnico:
Clonezilla also works very well for cloning. I used Clonezilla for the last couple of cloning jobs and I used to be a die-hard Ghost user.

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