bootable backups / dd and Windows cloning

Tue Jun 8 20:31:45 UTC 2010

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 04:18:29PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Who knows what WinXP does to prevent copying?  Perhaps it checks the drive 
> serial number.  Anti-copying code may be coy about diagnostics too.

Yes XP checks the drive serial number, as well as the MAC address of
the network card, motherboard serial number if present, bios type,
and various other bits of data it can get at, like cpu type, ram
quantity, etc.

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Len Sorensen
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