I am having an Issue with siemens hard drives in some HMI's that I have. I want to know if I have a ghost copy of the hard drive and then take that and dump it into another hard drive, Will it give me a netowrk problem considering the fact that windows NT create an SID file when you make a ghost. Siemens is saying that it will work on their hard drive but no one elses.

 

Last Siemens hard drive I saw was made by Fujitsu.

Donald P

 

Ghost comes with a program called Ghost Walker that allow you to modify the SID using a random number generator. Another method is to use the Microsoft Sysprep routine:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr.../w2koffice/dep03.mspx#XSLTsection127121120120

However I would be almost positive that there will be some kind of hidden partition or something like that for copy protection measures. Ghost will usually not pick up copy protection systems like that, unless you specify an exact sector for sector copy.

Chris Jennings

 

Just a general comment - I don't know about Siemens directly, but many of the newer "copy-protection schemes" use a hidden encrypted file that include some encrypted drive infomation - perhaps things like serial number even. So a "ghost copy" on another drive won't permit use of the
copy-protected application. Perhaps what Siemens is saying is their HMI application understands this issue and compensates as long as the drive is a Siemens drive with special Siemens parameters?

- LynnL