| Author | Message | ||
     Chowchow (Chowchow) |
I have a situation where a hard drive inside a Panasonic DMR-HS2 DVD recording system is formatted with the UDF format like a large DVD-RAM drive. I inserted a new hard drive when the orginal filled up, the new drive formatted on the unit but this device remembers a serial number from the last drive it formatted so any different drive installed requires a format including the original drive. Some think it may be getting this serial number from the MBR, others think it is read from the firmware. Winhex shows identical block 1 data on both the new and old drives. I need to overcome this hardware protection in order to recover seven projects in progress on the original drive. It has been a long time since I have used a sector editor but Winhex looks like a good one, If I buy an identical drive to the one I am replacing and format it first on the HS2 I am guessing that I could duplicate the data and it would work. the drive is ordered already, a 40gig Maxtor 40L0. Any suggestions on how to copy the old data to a newly formatted drive on the unit or a method of changing the serial number it is detecting would be appreciated. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
On how to change the serial number - sorry, no idea. How to copy the old data to the new hard disk: you could use Tools | Disk Tools | Clone Disk or File | Create Backup to clone the hard disk directly or by way of an image file stored on a third hard disk. | ||
| Chowchow (Chowchow) |
Well if the serial number comes out of hardware then the copy to the last drive formatted would fix that but if it is in software then I need to maintain the MBR. If I wanted to keep the MBR the same on the destination would I just skip sector 1? I may need to preserve a serial number that is saved on the MBR by the Panasonic unit. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Yes, you could just skip sector 0 (the sector with the MBR) and start cloning/imaging at sector 1. You could also make a backup just of sector 0 to restore it later. | ||
| john ormiston Username: winterhawk Registered: N/A |
we bought a poliroid model dra-01601a dvd recorder,it came with a 160 gig samsung hard drive, was wondering how we could format the drive so it would read on the computer and the dvd recorder.? thanks john ormiston |