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Restoring DriveId
Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 8:31 am
by daberti
Hello to everyone.
I've a question: is Sector-By-Sector option mandatory in order to be able to restore keeping the very same DriveId?
Thanks in advance
Re: Restoring DriveId
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 12:01 pm
by Alt
What is DriveID: A disk signature? Or what?
Re: Restoring DriveId
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 1:02 pm
by daberti
Alt wrote:What is DriveID: A disk signature? Or what?
Yes. It is used by some OS and SW. So my target is to restore the disk even to this extent.
Re: Restoring DriveId
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 1:27 pm
by Alt
Then, the answer is: no, not necessary. The image must be of the whole hard drive, though. Not of a partition.
Re: Restoring DriveId
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 6:35 am
by daberti
Alt wrote:Then, the answer is: no, not necessary. The image must be of the whole hard drive, though. Not of a partition.
Huge thanks!
Re: Restoring DriveId
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 8:01 am
by RForce
The drive ID is stored in the MBR, so a copy of sector 0 should do the trick.
Re: Restoring DriveId
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 8:57 am
by daberti
RForce wrote:The drive ID is stored in the MBR, so a copy of sector 0 should do the trick.
The point is that I'm using GPT
Re: Restoring DriveId
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 9:20 am
by Alt
When you copy the entire disk, R-Drive Image copies the entire disk, from Sector 0 to the last sector. It may omit some sectors reported as unused, if an appropriate option is selected. Sectors with drive's signature are obviously not unused.
Re: Restoring DriveId
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 10:13 am
by daberti
Alt wrote:When you copy the entire disk, R-Drive Image copies the entire disk, from Sector 0 to the last sector. It may omit some sectors reported as unused, if an appropriate option is selected. Sectors with drive's signature are obviously not unused.
Thanks again. Understood.