Would spoofing the new drive's serial number to match the old one achieve a working result?There is No ata lock, You can only outright clone the drive, if the drive is in the same S/N range as the original, ( the replacement drive that is)
You -Can- Clone the working, drive However, you will need to edit a few things to make it work
these include, You need a decypted copy of the game, change the shell application of windows form launcher.exe, to the game.exe
you also need to make a E:/ Partion, thats one of the few games that require it. with out it the game wont boot,
PM incoming.(Google is struggling to help find me a ia decrypted copy of the game)
If you buy the exact same type of harddrive of ebay, you can swap clone the drive, then swap the pcbs at the buttom and that will tech workWould spoofing the new drive's serial number to match the old one achieve a working result?There is No ata lock, You can only outright clone the drive, if the drive is in the same S/N range as the original, ( the replacement drive that is)
You -Can- Clone the working, drive However, you will need to edit a few things to make it work
these include, You need a decypted copy of the game, change the shell application of windows form launcher.exe, to the game.exe
you also need to make a E:/ Partion, thats one of the few games that require it. with out it the game wont boot,
(Google is struggling to help find me a ia decrypted copy of the game)
Couldn't you just do a full raw disk image and then it doesn't matter that the partition can't be mounted?My mistake. The PC I was using had a BIOS issue and said EVERY drive was ATA locked. The drive is *NOT* locked.
However the first partition cannot be mounted. It says it's an NTFS but I get no joy. The second partition has a bunch of .GST (Ghost?) files and some config info, and has a volume identity that is Kanji characters.
This is the working drive so something is amiss. Further investigation.....
A working legit drive should haveMy mistake. The PC I was using had a BIOS issue and said EVERY drive was ATA locked. The drive is *NOT* locked.
However the first partition cannot be mounted. It says it's an NTFS but I get no joy. The second partition has a bunch of .GST (Ghost?) files and some config info, and has a volume identity that is Kanji characters.
This is the working drive so something is amiss. Further investigation.....
The partitions are as you have described.A working legit drive should have
2 NTFS partitions @ 10gb each
then the rest of the drive will be unallocated
At least thats how every title I am aware of works
Teh drive is not Ata locked but they do have a boot sector, MBR check done via the bios, to prevent custom versions of windows booting.
Yeah, but if I need to place an unencrypted version of the game program on the disk I'll need to be able to access it.Couldn't you just do a full raw disk image and then it doesn't matter that the partition can't be mounted?
Oh, totally. I was thinking if you were just going to try and clone the one to repair the other.Yeah, but if I need to place an unencrypted version of the game program on the disk I'll need to be able to access it.
It's just a Western Digital WD400BB. Nothing special. I have four seats under my care at the moment and they are all using the same drive type.@DevoDave Can you show us a picture of your HDD ?
Yeah. I think so too.I'm going to guess Error 906 is because the new HDD serial doesn't match the original drive.