Clone a hard-drive

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malcolmboston
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Clone a hard-drive

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I need to clone a hard-drive which is simple enough but i also need to clone the physical hard-drive serial number as well to the new hard-drive, is this even possible?
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Re: Clone a hard-drive

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physical or volume serial number?

the volume serial number can be changed using code but i dont more about it then that
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Re: Clone a hard-drive

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dd in linux can create a complete clone of a hard drive.
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Doug G wrote:dd in linux can create a complete clone of a hard drive.
It won't copy the serial number.
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Re: Clone a hard-drive

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VladSun wrote:
Doug G wrote:dd in linux can create a complete clone of a hard drive.
It won't copy the serial number.
If you mean the hardware serial number in the drive's firmware, I'm sure there isn't any way to copy that to another disk. But if you mean the drive uuid or volume serial, dd can clone everything from the source disk including mbr and partition tables.
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malcolmboston, may I ask you why you need such an exact copy? The reason I ask is that hdd serials are used sometimes to implement copyright protection systems - and suggesting any way to circumvent that would be against our rules.
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Re: Clone a hard-drive

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Which OS is it?
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