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Hi there

I've just downloaded HDC. I have 2 identical 80GB Maxtor Drives. I'm trying to decide which one is the Source drive. I read a similar thread but it didn't address my problem, so I'm posting here in the hope of some advice.

The only diff. I can find is in the Firmware numbers on the 2 drives. How can I find which one it which? I tried going in BIOS & looking around, going to the Hardware properties within windows, but I cant find which is which!

I want to copy the bootable 80GB Maxtor Drive onto the Slave 80GB Maxtor drive.

Can anyone help pls?
Many thanks
Paul R

Apart from the firmware, HDClone also shows if a drive is master or slave, so you should be able to determine the drives, in the 2nd row of the info box right of the drive list, under Channel/Device it should say either Primary Master or Slave, or Secondary Master or Slave.

An alternative is to start HDShredder Free Edition and go to the same selection, here you can click on the Spyglass symbol right next to the speed test and examine the contents of the disc. We are working to port this feature to HDClone as soon as possible in order to make this decision easier for the user.

If the target disc is completely empty, its fairly easy to see; you can format it with a brand new NTFS file system, open a command line and enter the dir command.
It will show something like this:

Volume in Drive C has no label
Volume Serial Number is 1234-5678

Note Down the serial number for each of the discs, and open the discs with HDShredder's Disk Spy mode:

Go to sector 63 of the disc, and in case of NTFS (the most likely case), look for the entry at 0x48 (5. column, 9th row), it should contain the serial number in reversed form, i.e. 78 56 34 12

In case of FAT 32, this number is found at 0x43, in case of FAT16 or FAT12 at 0x27.