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I will try to ghost it this weekend, and report back as to the results.

there used to be a guy on here that worked for active voice (people who make the vm). classofservice i think is his handle. he might have a better answer 4u

Not real sure how NEC BSSD does thier drives but the drives both hard and Compact flash units in the Aspire, DS and I series have hidden serial numbers that are not seen by any OS other than the manufacturer.

Thats why you have to pretty much have to send these back when the hard drive fails or there is enough damage done to the flash units.


DJ

Thanks for all the responses and Ideas!

Why I am looking to do this is disaster recovery. When the hard drive fails, I want to be able to rebuild the drives back to the original state from the last back up. I may just need to copy over key files for the vmail. files that contain the vmail structer and the recorded promts. maybe even name, greetings and messages. Depends on what its going to take.

I understand I might have to replace it with another vmail from NEC, when I do, I want the onsite time to be minimal.

I rather spend a few bucks up front then pay a tech 8 plus hours rebuilding a voicemail. When a backup can cut the cost down to 1 hour.


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[This message has been edited by BIGDOG3c (edited April 16, 2005).]

I think you are right about this hidden serial number stuff. I just tried "ghosting" the image of the existing CF 64MB over to a 128MB and even a 512MB.

After booting up, both of the ghosted drives act like they are "new" and requires activating. Obviously, the hidden serial number must be in the Master Boot Record, or somehow outside of the data area that's reachable by normal dos utils.

So, so much for my experiment. If I have some more time, I will take Norton Utilities and go through the drive and see what's abnormal about this setup that comes from NEC.

I gotta be careful about this exercise though, since one wrong keystroke can render my CF useless.

Yikes!!! what a scary thought.