Restoring DriveId

Disk backup and restore, partition imaging and cloning, and drive copy using R-Drive Image.
Forum rules
Discussion on the R-Drive Image software
daberti
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun May 22, 2016 7:35 am

Restoring DriveId

Post by daberti » Sun May 22, 2016 8:31 am

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

Alt
Site Moderator
Posts: 3129
Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:13 pm
Contact:

Re: Restoring DriveId

Post by Alt » Mon May 23, 2016 12:01 pm

What is DriveID: A disk signature? Or what?

daberti
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun May 22, 2016 7:35 am

Re: Restoring DriveId

Post by daberti » Mon May 23, 2016 1:02 pm

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.

Alt
Site Moderator
Posts: 3129
Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:13 pm
Contact:

Re: Restoring DriveId

Post by Alt » Mon May 23, 2016 1:27 pm

Then, the answer is: no, not necessary. The image must be of the whole hard drive, though. Not of a partition.

daberti
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun May 22, 2016 7:35 am

Re: Restoring DriveId

Post by daberti » Tue May 24, 2016 6:35 am

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!

RForce
Posts: 77
Joined: Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:05 am

Re: Restoring DriveId

Post by RForce » Wed May 25, 2016 8:01 am

The drive ID is stored in the MBR, so a copy of sector 0 should do the trick.

daberti
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun May 22, 2016 7:35 am

Re: Restoring DriveId

Post by daberti » Wed May 25, 2016 8:57 am

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 ;)

Alt
Site Moderator
Posts: 3129
Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:13 pm
Contact:

Re: Restoring DriveId

Post by Alt » Wed May 25, 2016 9:20 am

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.

daberti
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun May 22, 2016 7:35 am

Re: Restoring DriveId

Post by daberti » Wed May 25, 2016 10:13 am

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.

Post Reply