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[BrollyLSSJ]

Would it be possible to make ImDisk "faking" a vendor so it looks more like a real HDD? Like making it a Seagate HDD or Western Digital HDD (or what ever brands there are). It would also be nice if a created virtual HDD would show up under Disks in the Device Manager to look more like a real disk. This is just an idea I had.

[MedEvil]

The first would be Trademark infringement and the second is not possible since ImDisk does not emulate hardware.

[dog]

Winvblock and firadisk can emulate whole disks, and since they and imdisk are open source, you might be able to get them to report whatever brand you choose.

[BrollyLSSJ]

Thank you for the answer. If it is a trademark infringement I doubt that Winvblock and firedisk will add the specific disk. I just came to the idea, because I got a laptop which won't boot if I plugged in a HDD via USB (to boot while it is plugged in). The HDD is connected via a SATA / IDE to USB adapter. To still be able to use functions for some programs which needs the HDD I wanted to emulate it. So that I can in case just boot that laptop via WOL when I am not at home.

[MedEvil]

WTF?
A.) Dog hinted on opern source, meaning you could change the source code and then compile yourself.
B.) Why would the ramdisk / filedisk need to report to be a, let's say, WesternDigital, to emulate a drive with your data on?
C.) If the computer does not boot with a HDD pluged into an USB port, try fiddeling with the BIOS USB settings, check if a newer BIOS is available, which fixes the problem or get a USB expansion card.
D.) When you can boot the computer with WOL, why not simply connect the USB-HDD to that other computer and connect it as Network drive?

[dog]

Like making it a Seagate HDD or Western Digital HDD

If you want to run seagate discwizard, and it doesn't detect your seagate/maxtor HD over USB, then you can try this:
http://forums.seagat...-hard/m-p/25406

[DarkPhoeniX]

Thank you for the answer. If it is a trademark infringement I doubt that Winvblock and firedisk will add the specific disk. I just came to the idea, because I got a laptop which won't boot if I plugged in a HDD via USB (to boot while it is plugged in). The HDD is connected via a SATA / IDE to USB adapter. To still be able to use functions for some programs which needs the HDD I wanted to emulate it. So that I can in case just boot that laptop via WOL when I am not at home.

What laptop do you have?
Can it boot from USB?

[BrollyLSSJ]

What laptop do you have?
Can it boot from USB?

That specific laptop is a Fujitsu Lifebook E8310 and as far as i know it can boot from USB (I booted CEntOS 6.2 minimal and netinstall, both 32 and 64 Bit, from it).
Though I used an old USB 1.1 USB Stick for it, while this S-ATA & IDE to USB Adapter is capable of USB 2.0.

Edited by BrollyLSSJ, 08 July 2012 - 08:07 PM.

[BrollyLSSJ]

That hint with the Seagate DiscWizard was good. The laptop got a Seagate HDD installed and the new Seagate DiscWizard (version 13, based of ATIH 2010, like Acronis Western Digital Edition) detects the built-in Seagate HDD.

[dog]

Glad to help, but if that was the stated problem then we could have wrapped this up earlier

[BrollyLSSJ]

Yeah, sorry for the confusion. The other stuff I probably need only when I am at home so I can plugin the Western Digital HDD. But now I can start backups from remote.