compact flash

[oldwave]

has anyone tried a sector by sector copy of an Office 250 compact flash for a backup, i was able to do that in the old days with a bcm harddrive.  My custome has purchased a mitel 250 system and i want to have a backup card . The Since they are serilaized it seems that it might work ? 

[esoare]

BCM... ahhh... _ Just wanted to say hello! - I had thought of something like that for the 10 sites I'm supporting! - Let us know if it works for you!

[acejavelin]

I tried to do this in Linux using dd... making a bit for bit copy, and it fails... the serial number it is using doesn't seem to be part of the regular portion of the card (hardware ID or something maybe)... I could get it to boot, but the SYSID was blank and it would be in license violation and reboot every 4 hours.

[oldwave]

Ahhh

I wonder if the license is embedded in a hidden partition or in the boot sector.  When I cloned a bcm disk to an ssd I had to use the advanced features of clonezilla as a regular software would not work.   
There were odd partitions.   

[Teck900]

ive tried with hdd raw copy and still the license doesnt work..

ive even tried where you enable the support account in the maintenance accounts then go to software license operation and put in   proj3MATRIX  but still haven't got it to work


if anyone has any insight  that would help