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Clone a hard-drive

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:19 am
by malcolmboston
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?

Re: Clone a hard-drive

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:48 am
by daedalus__
physical or volume serial number?

the volume serial number can be changed using code but i dont more about it then that

Re: Clone a hard-drive

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 1:04 pm
by Doug G
dd in linux can create a complete clone of a hard drive.

Re: Clone a hard-drive

Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:02 pm
by VladSun
Doug G wrote:dd in linux can create a complete clone of a hard drive.
It won't copy the serial number.

Re: Clone a hard-drive

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:06 pm
by Doug G
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.

Re: Clone a hard-drive

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:28 pm
by Weirdan
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.

Re: Clone a hard-drive

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:36 am
by TedDonavan
Which OS is it?