bootable backups / dd and Windows cloning

[E K]

--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: bootable backups / dd and Windows cloning
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 4:31 PM
> 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.
> 

Isn't that too much work for a boot loader? The disk error message comes at pretty early stage of the boot process, immidiately after turning the machine on.

EK
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