netRAT Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Not sure if what I'm trying to achieve is actually possible... I'd like to create a 'true' clone of my system drive which will retain all the unique identifiers of the source disk. Many of the programs/plugins I have installed tie DRM licensing to the disk and so far every single cloning program I tried (including sector by sector method) result in having to reactivate a ton of softs/plugins which is a massively time consuming pain... Any ideas if/how that can be avoided? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mp68terr Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Are you cloning your system to another drive? Maybe you need the target drive to have the same volume ID as the source, search for 'Volume Serial Number (also known as VSN)'; you can get this number with a simple DIR command. Long ago there was a tool called VolumeID, might be still around. Edit: here is a link from msoft for VolumeID v2.1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/volumeid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rerigam Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Take a look here: Site: https://www.raymond.cc Sharecode: /blog/changing-or-spoofing-hard-disk-hardware-serial-number-and-volume-id/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netRAT Posted December 18, 2019 Author Share Posted December 18, 2019 I just attempted the above and upon performing a fresh clone of my system drive using Macrium Reflect I booted the clone and learned to discover that Reflect already replicated the original VolumeID, hence this solution does not solve the problem. I launched Ableton Live - which is known to tie DRM to disk hardware and as expected it asked for activation. Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbleck Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 22 hours ago, netRAT said: I launched Ableton Live - which is known to tie DRM to disk hardware and as expected it asked for activation. Any other ideas? https://audio.tools/news/download_ableton_live_suite_v10_1_3_incl_patched_and_keygen/2019-10-30-25144 Spoiler https://rapidgator.net/file/21cbabf41b58cfb2c94b01df1070b707/162005.part1.rar https://rapidgator.net/file/2fee0a3bf094b0bb85ca68491b596a39/162005.part2.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debebee Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 3.1.2 What if I Change My Computer’s Components? If you change your computer components for some reason, Live may indeed ask you to authorize the software another time. Live does not need to be reauthorized when computer peripherals are replaced (audio or MIDI hardware, printers, modems). But you may need to authorize again if the motherboard, processor or network card is replaced. On some computers, reformatting a hard drive will require a new authorization https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/authorizing-live/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrZeb Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Hi, Try doing a Image Backup and then Restore instead of cloning because many of those software will auto change the ID's of disks and partitions to avoid conflicts that will happen if you let Windows boot and see both drives the original and the clone. When Restoring with only one drive as destination the ID's may be preserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debebee Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 imho.. audio software drm is one of the trickier drms.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netRAT Posted December 20, 2019 Author Share Posted December 20, 2019 6 hours ago, jbleck said: https://audio.tools/news/download_ableton_live_suite_v10_1_3_incl_patched_and_keygen/2019-10-30-25144 Reveal hidden contents https://rapidgator.net/file/21cbabf41b58cfb2c94b01df1070b707/162005.part1.rar https://rapidgator.net/file/2fee0a3bf094b0bb85ca68491b596a39/162005.part2.rar Yeah, thanks. That's exactly what I'm using but the whole point is avoiding having to reactivate everything after cloning. 5 hours ago, bayer said: 3.1.2 What if I Change My Computer’s Components? If you change your computer components for some reason, Live may indeed ask you to authorize the software another time. Live does not need to be reauthorized when computer peripherals are replaced (audio or MIDI hardware, printers, modems). But you may need to authorize again if the motherboard, processor or network card is replaced. On some computers, reformatting a hard drive will require a new authorization https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/authorizing-live/ Precisely! lol 4 hours ago, MrZeb said: Hi, Try doing a Image Backup and then Restore instead of cloning because many of those software will auto change the ID's of disks and partitions to avoid conflicts that will happen if you let Windows boot and see both drives the original and the clone. When Restoring with only one drive as destination the ID's may be preserved. Interesting approach... Didn't think there would be any difference as opposed to cloning. I'll definitely try. 49 minutes ago, bayer said: imho.. audio software drm is one of the trickier drms.. Tell me about it... 🤷♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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