Restoring DriveId

[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

[Alt]

What is DriveID: A disk signature? Or what?

[daberti]

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]

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

[daberti]

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

Huge thanks!

[RForce]

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

[daberti]

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]

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]

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.