When I use ATI Recover function, is it a true 100% bit-to-bit clone program?

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I am trying to recover my HTPC SSD to another SSD and I am successfully recover and my new SSD is able to boot up without problem now. The reason I want to clone another SSD is, I want to have a 100% Plug-N-Play ready SSD in an event that my original SSD fails. Since this HTPC's SSD is my primary household's HD DVR as I am using MS Media Center to record all my programming. Being said, MS is using their own DRM call PlayReady and long story short, after recover successful completed, I shut down the HTPC, remove the original SSD and boot up the recovered SSD, all fine except when I hit the play button none of the recordings are playing and they all saying that Contents are Copy Prohibited and can't play in any other computer error message....

Before back up, I have everything selected such as MBR and disk signature in the source disk... So what am I missing here? How can I have a 100% clone and my new SSD will be able to use just like the original SSD?

Fri, 05/25/2012 - 17:00
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It's not sector-by-sector cloning, IIRC - unallocated space of the file system is not copied. But if this DRM ties itself to serial number of the hard disk, or something else that is not the part of user-written data, you are out of luck anyway. The possible way to check it, though I wouldn't recommend it to use right away is to take a backup of system disk and restore it back to the same original disk. If it works - then the DRM checks disk's serial or other hardware info, if not - it found some difference in the restored data.

Sat, 05/26/2012 - 07:51
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Thanks for the feedback. Yes, since the original SSD is working flawlessly, I am not going to mess around and test that. However, I did use other copy programs such as CopyWipe and copy Raw Sector by Sector and the result was the same. I guess my back up is not going to work for MS DRM owner like myself.

Sat, 05/26/2012 - 15:10