Yesterday I tried this again and unfortunately I got the same application error as I did the first time.
Attached is a PDF of all the screen captures as I went through the process.
The setup: an IDE 5.25" drive is connected to one IDE connector, and this has Paragon on it which the scope boots from. The freshly formatted SSD 32GB (which reads somewhere around 29.8GB) is on the other IDE connector; both on the same IDE cable (one primary, one secondary). The USB (labled: 4GB_Drive) has the Agilent scope software on it.
The screen shots show which options are selected just as I'm about to select 'next'. The SSD was formatted with a label of 'Agilent' and shows as Agilent (C:) Basic MBR Hard Disk 0 (TS32GSSD270S).
It took approximately 60min to complete the restore. Once finished, I turned off the scope, disconnected the USB and 5.25" leaving just the SSD (which now has the XP image) and booted the scope.
The scope booted showing the XP splash screen, eventually the desktop, began installing drivers as it found hardware, went to boot the scope software, I heard a single relay click, and it gave an error. Once I clicked 'close', the scope froze.
I tried rebooting by turning off the scope. The same thing series of events happened (except it no longer needed to install anymore drivers), the scope software went to load, I heard a relay click, got an error, I clicked 'close', and it was frozen.
Thinking maybe it just needed time, I let it sit for several minutes, however, it remained frozen.
I couldn't figure out how to boot the factory image. Previously you mentioned holding down the CTRL key, but that didn't work. As you mentioned, we can chat, however, the steps to do this is quite time consuming, so I don't think we'd accomplish much. The screen captures are a good visual of what I did, also, this is exactly what has happened two or three previous times I installed the XP image.