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Dos Program encryting to Hard drive
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| T. Hardy 2004-01-17, 9:23 pm |
| I have a customer that runs a video rental, The main hard drive was going
out so I put in a new one, He is running windows 98 but his video rental
software is DOS.
When I copy the"Dos" program over to the new hard drive, it loses its
registration and only works in Demo mode.
He called the company that makes it and they told him that the program
encrypts itself to the hard drive. They will put the program on the New
Hard Drive for $1500.00
If I used a program like winimage and made an image of the folder and
then extracted the image to the new hard drive, would that copy over the
encryption also. I know the registration wouldn't be in the Registry because
DOS didn't have a registry. Currently he is still running the program from
the Hard drive that is getting bad sectors daily. I kept it in the computer
as a secondary drive.
Any suggestions or theories are welcome.
Thanks,
Thomas Carraway
Passed CompTIA A+ exams Dec 16, 2003
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| try a program like partition magic (power quest) Norton Ghost
(Symantec) or drive image (power quest) to clone his original hard
drive to the new one. They copy the info on the original sector by
sector, bit by bit. this may preserve whatever was in the original in
order to make it functional. may is the operative word.
suggest he get any other program than the one he has, since the mfgr
seems intent on screwing him.
tell him to call the mfgr and start screaming at them.
good luck, and leave that company behind.
Mike
"T. Hardy" <tccarraw@netdoor.comITX> wrote in message
news:HdudndaUl-_oe5TdRVn-gg@netdoor.com...
> I have a customer that runs a video rental, The main hard drive was
going
> out so I put in a new one, He is running windows 98 but his video
rental
> software is DOS.
> When I copy the"Dos" program over to the new hard drive, it loses
its
> registration and only works in Demo mode.
> He called the company that makes it and they told him that the
program
> encrypts itself to the hard drive. They will put the program on the
New
> Hard Drive for $1500.00
> If I used a program like winimage and made an image of the folder
and
> then extracted the image to the new hard drive, would that copy
over the
> encryption also. I know the registration wouldn't be in the Registry
because
> DOS didn't have a registry. Currently he is still running the
program from
> the Hard drive that is getting bad sectors daily. I kept it in the
computer
> as a secondary drive.
> Any suggestions or theories are welcome.
> Thanks,
> Thomas Carraway
> Passed CompTIA A+ exams Dec 16, 2003
>
>
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| T. Hardy 2004-01-18, 2:23 am |
| May have to try that, The OS on the old hard drive is shot, It just so
happens that the program is actually running from it with bad sectors all
around it, once it writes to one of the bad ones, it is all over I imagine.
I have Norton Ghost, I guess I will give it a whirl.
"MF" < wallacestevens54@removethisfir
styahoo.com> wrote in message
news:x6SdnZ5wj4ggkJfdRVn-hQ@comcast.com...
> try a program like partition magic (power quest) Norton Ghost
> (Symantec) or drive image (power quest) to clone his original hard
> drive to the new one. They copy the info on the original sector by
> sector, bit by bit. this may preserve whatever was in the original in
> order to make it functional. may is the operative word.
>
> suggest he get any other program than the one he has, since the mfgr
> seems intent on screwing him.
>
> tell him to call the mfgr and start screaming at them.
>
> good luck, and leave that company behind.
>
> Mike
>
> "T. Hardy" <tccarraw@netdoor.comITX> wrote in message
> news:HdudndaUl-_oe5TdRVn-gg@netdoor.com...
> going
> rental
> its
> program
> New
> and
> over the
> because
> program from
> computer
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>
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| Barry Watzman 2004-01-19, 12:23 am |
| No way to be sure without trying it. You may need to use an image
program with a "forensic" option (copies every sector, even those that
would otherwise be presumed unused). Norton Ghost has such an option,
although I've never used it. Some of the image programs may do this
routinely as well (and thus not have an option). If one program doesn't
work, try another.
T. Hardy wrote:
> I have a customer that runs a video rental, The main hard drive was going
> out so I put in a new one, He is running windows 98 but his video rental
> software is DOS.
> When I copy the"Dos" program over to the new hard drive, it loses its
> registration and only works in Demo mode.
> He called the company that makes it and they told him that the program
> encrypts itself to the hard drive. They will put the program on the New
> Hard Drive for $1500.00
> If I used a program like winimage and made an image of the folder and
> then extracted the image to the new hard drive, would that copy over the
> encryption also. I know the registration wouldn't be in the Registry because
> DOS didn't have a registry. Currently he is still running the program from
> the Hard drive that is getting bad sectors daily. I kept it in the computer
> as a secondary drive.
> Any suggestions or theories are welcome.
> Thanks,
> Thomas Carraway
> Passed CompTIA A+ exams Dec 16, 2003
>
>
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| D V. Brown 2004-01-19, 11:23 pm |
| "T. Hardy" <tccarraw@netdoor.comITX> wrote in message
news:Ou6dnUpwzedKvpfdRVn-gg@netdoor.com...
> May have to try that, The OS on the old hard drive is shot, It just so
> happens that the program is actually running from it with bad sectors all
> around it, once it writes to one of the bad ones, it is all over I
imagine.
> I have Norton Ghost, I guess I will give it a whirl.
Just a thought, but you might want to run scandisk and have it check the
physical drive so that the bad sectors may be marked as bad. Ghost may fail
if it tries to coppy from a bad sector.
Good luck.
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| T. Hardy 2004-01-21, 2:23 am |
| I just now got Norton Ghost. I guess I will give it a whirl. I ran scandisk
so it would mark the bad sectors. I am afraid of what ghost will do when I
hits one..
This video program he uses does backups of the databases as .dbf files.
I wish I knew of a windows video program that could read the backup files of
this dos program. I think he needs to find some new software.
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:400B5F6C.20309@neo.rr.com...
> No way to be sure without trying it. You may need to use an image
> program with a "forensic" option (copies every sector, even those that
> would otherwise be presumed unused). Norton Ghost has such an option,
> although I've never used it. Some of the image programs may do this
> routinely as well (and thus not have an option). If one program doesn't
> work, try another.
>
>
> T. Hardy wrote:
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