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mahkeymike:
I am not sure if you are trying to backup the data on the drives or if you want to look at the data on them. If you just want to backup the drives, the best way is to use a bootable cd based clone tool like G4L (ghost 4 linux). You would just connect the IDE drive to another pc as a slave w/master. If its a laptop drive you need a laptop to ide adapter. I have not tried using a merit hard drive as a usb drive. Not sure the usb controllers support ext2/3.
Re-reading your posts, it appears you think only specific data gets overwritten when doing an upgrade? This is not true with force/ion. All data/OS gets formatted and reinstalled along with a newer version of linux, the data content (games) and a bootloader (lilo=force) (grub=ion). There is no "overlay"with these. It all gets wiped out and redone. Everything is contained in the game version ISO's.
I can also verify that the maxx "jade" version is the same as force.
ed12:
what i want to do
is get copys of the paritions on a bare drive
just like a service drive u would buy from merit..
or is this useless,because merit would ship acrording to the game u requested ?,
now rember i am talking service parts here..
ie: i call merit and tell them my maxx drive blew
do they send me a drive with the complete os on it ?
or just a merit paritioned drive ?
and if the first question is yes u get the complete game
then all this is for not,but if u just by it with a ready parition on it
then that is what i am after.
ed
mahkeymike:
I have never ordered anything from merit but i would assume that when people ordered a hard drive they would send them a hard drive with the version that matches the key they have in their machine. When you take a blank hard drive and install for example, force software from a downloaded ISO, it formats and partitions the hard drive, then uses a custom version of an old linux backup software utility called partimage to restore the partitions. Inside the ISO is partimage image files that contain the data for each partition. After its done restoring the partitions, it installs a bootloader and when you reboot, the bootloader boots the OS and loads a custom version of X window system (X11). During the boot process it reads the data off the key to determine the correct version info (country, currency..ect..ect).
So to answer your questions, yes you would get a hard drive with everything already on it for the version you need. I dont undersand why you want a hard drive with just the empty partitions.
I could make you a patch for the ISO that would only format, partition, and install a bootloader, but i dont see why that would do any good.
ed12:
ok well
more to the point,i chatted there ol tech dept 1 day
and they said no u just buy a harddrive with there layer on it olny..
so in short if u wanted a game loaded u would make a second request for it,
or they just send u a formated drive.
which is where i was heading,but if u are sure it would come complete
then that makes all this work for not..which in its-self,is not to bad,as then the q has been
answered and i can move on
ed
mahkeymike:
The reason they told you "their layer" is because they reprogram factory hard drive firmware so their software pci bus reads its device id as a merit hard drive. This is not needed for force and ion. You only get a warning that its not an official hard drive. The entire software will still install from the downloadable dvd ISO's onto any hard drive.
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