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Old 13-12-2013, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Astro_Bot View Post
That's not the case anymore. Cylinder boundaries are an artificial construct in modern hard drives. Modern access modes in disk firmware (and as supported by your OS) obfuscate physical geometry.

I've cloned dozens (hundreds?) of times and not yet had a problem, including booting off the cloned drive many times.
Would this work on old IDE and SATA drives running XP?
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