Agilent E5062A need HDD image - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / repair

author: Eugene1970
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 08, 2021, 07:31:59 pm
content: 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!

author: tagchen
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 21, 2021, 09:34:16 pm
content: Question, have you a HDD or a CF-Card in it?

author: analogRF
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2021, 12:05:07 am
content: 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 criticalbut 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 partitionsand run chkdsk on them or scandisk and I get no errorsbut 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 problemI 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 thefollowing runs it can rescue more and eventually give a usable image? any idea?

author: analogRF
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 24, 2021, 12:18:53 am
content: Quote from: tagchen on January 21, 2021, 09:34:16 pmthe 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 WinXPbut how? I don't have the VNA software separately to install after installing WinXPthe motherboard is a RadiSys SC815E. Only two PCI slots are used one for an interface board and one for GPIBIt can only take up to 512MB RAM up to PC133

author: Eugene1970
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 24, 2021, 02:13:17 am
content: I bought the device without a hard drive.

author: Eugene1970
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 24, 2021, 02:27:50 am
content: 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.

author: Eugene1970
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 24, 2021, 02:37:04 am
content: 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?

author: N8AUM
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 16, 2021, 04:46:50 pm
content: Did you ever find image ?

author: BeamDump
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 23, 2022, 02:42:20 pm
content: I can offer image from 5071B, if that helps. Still trying to understand the cloning process though, something's off.