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?