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TTX4 How do I clone the hard drive?

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The TTX4 (Love Live) system I got is a windows 8 embedded system with bitlocker enabled I'm assuming. Or could it be bios encrypted? I just want to clone the drive to an SSD for faster boot times and for a backup just in-case it dies.

Popping it into my arch linux system just results in the drive waiting. The OS doesn't detect it.
 
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The TTX4 (Love Live) system I got is a windows 8 embedded system with bitlocker enabled I'm assuming. Or could it be bios encrypted? I just want to clone the drive to an SSD for faster boot times and for a backup just in-case it dies.

Popping it into my arch linux system just results in the drive waiting. The OS doesn't detect it.
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Given how Linux is reacting its probably ATA locked. In this case fdisk will show an IO error, but, smartctl should still show the vendor and serial of the drive.

if you can't find info a SATA analyzer which can intercept the hex unlock at boot is your key to making a backup. hdparm in Linux can take hex strings for security lock and unlock, but don't mess up ;)
 
Interesting, I had no idea you could do that with SATA. I'd say that method is the last resort lol, just seems dangerous/expensive.

There's gotta be a safer way right? How would I just get into the Windows 8 system? I mean, c'mon, it's windows 8 embedded, it's gotta vulnerable. Is there some exploit, or maybe it has some ports open (I still haven't done a port scan, I'll do that soon in a bit; need to clean my workspace off)?
 
Albeit not cheap, that is the safe way... the unsafe way is to boot the system and hot swap the data cable. I'm far less comfortable doing that than using a tool meant for the job. If you can find someone with the right tool it's a few minute job.

I do like your idea of exploitation but I believe that system is too new to discuss that here.

For reading the data is one thing, creating a working backup from that image is another. You may need the exact same hdd model number or an SSD capable of having that data set as it's manufacturer and serial.

Keep in mind arcades are $$$ and these companies have engineers paid to protect this stuff. While it is an arcade PC you may be liable to find interesting stuff (i.e. on sega ring systems if you unlock the hdd the game partition is still truecrypted). The history of arcade bootlegging back to pre JAMMA and especially in JAMMA/MVS days is fascinating. People fabricating whole pcbs to clone a game. Companies like Capcom making the suicide batteries... the list goes on.

Anyway best of luck, I'm not sure how much more help I can offer personally as I don't have the system in hand.
 
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From what I've read here and there, the drives are encrypted, you can't even format them for reuse.
Maybe no one has really looked into the question because 320gb these days is small.
 
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